What Video Games Are You Playing Right Now? (Vol. 1)

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This is the general-purpose thread about games you've been wasting your life away with lately.

Having purchased me a GameCube two weeks ago(they're down to US$99!), i've spent a lot of my time with it. Metroid Prime, Zelda, and Eternal Darkness: Sanity's Requiem(a rare good Lovecraft game).

http://images.amazon.com/images/P/B000095ZHA.01.LZZZZZZZ.jpgJust rented the new Simpsons: Hit & Run last night, which is essentially their version of Grand Theft Auto, only minus the uzis & the drug-running. And the fun part? It doesn't suck! Imagine that!

So, what you been playin'?

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:34 (twenty-one years ago)

and why do all movie/tv-licensed games suck the biggus dickus?(with the exception of Goldeneye on the N64)

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Having also bought a cheap GC I've been playing Zelda: Wind Waker, Zelda: Ocarina, and a smidgen of Super Monkey Ball.

On the GBA I'm playing Pokemon Ruby, I'd guess I'm about a third of the way through that.way of listening to new music too.

On the PC pretty much all I play is Civ 2, and that not properly for a while - I keep starting games and then never getting back to them and when I do I can't remember what I was trying to do.

On the PS2 I never seem to finish games - I have an ongoing game of LMA Manager 2002 though that I'm keen to return to, it's quite therapeutic and it's also a great

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I got a Gamecube and Metroid Prime in the summer. I'm all the way to fighting Metroid Prime, but haven't picked it up in a month. I want to get another game, but I feel that I have unfinished business that must be taken care of first.

― Dale the Titled (cprek), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I just finished my 6th season of Madden 2004. 6 straight Super Bowl wins. I bought NHL 2004 last week and my PS2 doesn't like it, it won't load the game. So I haven't played it yet. Thats it. I don't own any games besides those two.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:45 (twenty-one years ago)

what stops you from beating a game? How long will you go before picking up again? will you beat it then?

i picked up Thiefs I & II in the summer, still unbeaten.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Part of my post got moved to another part of my post somehow.

I have a low patience threshold with games Kingfish - I'm not prepared to be frustrated for more than about half and hour before I put the thing down. Then it might be a while before I try again depending on how intractable the problem seems to be.

I don't actually think I've ever 'finished' a game. With football management games I've won everything there is to win in a single season though at which point I usually look for a different club to manage or start again.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I've finished Civ obviously. But never on the hardest level. I'm a quitter and proud of it!

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Well I never have problems beating the sports games. Strategy games and adventure games drive me nuts. I have no patience and usually throw the controller when I get frustrated(which is often) so then I have no controller to use. WHich means, I don't get to play until I buy a new controller. So I never end up finishing games.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

I only really play GBA now, and a few weeks ago I finished Zelda: Link to the Past (having missed it during my first childhood), which was a long and satisfying endeavor. Now I'm mucking around on Wario Ware until Super Mario 3 Advance or whatever they're calling it comes out, although it just occured to me that I should get that Metroid game for GBA.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Got a Gameboy Advance SP Turbo 2000 or whatthehellever a couple months ago, to kill time during slow stretches on campus. I played the hell out of Metroid Fusion for a while, but I'm stuck on this damn part where I need to shot these hatches open and blow shit up and run away, freezing SA-X every couple seconds to keep from dying.

Lately, playing Pokemon Sapphire. My one guy who can beat just about anyone keeps using up all his PP before I get past the Elite Four, which means I get my ass kicked cause I don't have any PP-restoring thingies.

(Please don't read the last sentence out loud.)

The girlfriend's hooked on Super Mario Advance 4: Super Mario Bros 3 right now, and I'm awaiting the GBA release of The Sims! (And the Mario/Luigi RPG). Also hoping for more N64 ports, since I've never played any of those games. Maybe Super Mario Advance 5 will be Mario 64, that'd rock.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:16 (twenty-one years ago)

i beat the meta ridley! hurrah. had one go at metroid prime and got about 2/3 through the first incarnation (I know there's BOUND to be a second). Reckon I have to get a cheat list of all the missile/weap upgrades and go scour the map before going back.

If I can be bothered.

Looking fwd to Warioland. When's the new Rogue Leader out?

― Alan (Alan), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe Super Mario Advance 5 will be Mario 64, that'd rock

Would that be possible? I thought the GBA was basically a little tiny Super Nintendo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:23 (twenty-one years ago)

On the PS2 Im still working my way through GTA3, Im kinda fustrated by the bank robbery and have been giving it a break finally. In Fifa World Tour 2003 or 2002 I forget, Im guiding Ajax to league and cup wins and have saved right before a big game with Rotterdam. After that I still need Italian and Belgium league and cups victorys. I just got bored with Final Fantasy X right after fighting my way in Zanarkand so I've put that one down for a bit. I'm also bored with Gt-A since I have very few tours to win and one of them involves driving a Zonda for 20 odd laps. Im also nearing the end of Neverwinter Nights or whatever its called, I finished it on Hard, ran through the guantlet and now am almost finished the Super Hard level that was unlocked. And despite not actually liking Zone of The Enders Im almost done that game but found no challenge or reason to continue.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:24 (twenty-one years ago)

quake 2, dungeon keeper.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Rebel Strike hits before the end of the year. They already have a demo of it running at Best Buy & the big box stores of the like.

I got the GC/GBA game adapter, and am thinking of getting some GBA games now. it IS a bit cheap that you need a GBA to access certain parts of games like Zelda or Metroid...

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Mainly just Ape Escape 2 these days, with occasional relapses into GTA Vice City or Tony Hawk 4. Am eagerly awaiting Jak II and THUG this month. I need to get back into Sims, I never really played it much.

― NA (Nick A.), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Would that be possible? I thought the GBA was basically a little tiny Super Nintendo.

I'm not sure -- come to think of it, I don't know anything about the specs for the GBA. If it's really only the equivalent of a Super Nintendo, though, they're pretty efficient -- the graphics and smoothness on some of the games is better than some of the early PlayStation games I have (only some, of course). Hmm. It would still probably be trickier to bring it over ... but cheaper than a new game from scratch, and the Mario series sells well enough maybe they'll do it anyway. I hope :)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm old school. Former roomate left an Atari 7200!?!?! 2600 version of Berzerk and Q-Bert 4-everah!!

― souledamerican (souledamerican), Friday, 17 October 2003 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

apparently, the GBA has better graphics hardware than the Playstation ever did.

however, having a screen that's only about 1/7th the size of a usual TV does cut down on the allowable detail in a game.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

apart from still replaying the GTA games on ps2, I am currently getting very sweaty and frustrated at the Midnight club2 game. Still manage to cram in the odd race on NFS hot pursuit2 though.

― Fuzzy (Fuzzy), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:03 (twenty-one years ago)

fucking dungeon keeper rocks pashmina; I'll never get tired of it.

Have you guys seen this?

http://www.egmmag.com/article2/0,4364,1338730,00.asp

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:19 (twenty-one years ago)

oh god, that article is brilliant

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:40 (twenty-one years ago)

My main vice is Desert Combat, a mod for Battlefield 1942. It's juvenile antics with their tanks and their bombs and their bombs and their gonz, and as such stress relief par excellence.

Civ 3's on the go every now and again, occasinally a bit of multiplay with Celeste, which is fun.

Champ Man game with made-up players is now over, my save game has gone wierd, but I'd won the Champions League so thats that really. Never again will I know the joy of Lawson hitting a 50yrd through ball for Vecera to pounce on and score.

I'm not really looking at anything coming up soon, my PC can't handle the next generation of games, and I'm really glad about that. Too much time wasted as it is.

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:47 (twenty-one years ago)

That truly is a wonderful link, thanks Teeny!

I love this quote from one of those kids: "Donkey Kong's mouth is made of pluses. Look: Plus, plus, plus, minus. They're trying to teach you math by brainwashing you."

Kids really do say the darndest things.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, actually I'm a little reluctant to buy Metroid Fusion because I know I'll have to play it until it's over (although I did give up on Advance Wars 2), and I've been enjoying getting so much reading done in my evenings lately...

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 October 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Good plan :) My reading plummetted when I started playing Metroid Fusion; I went from three or four novels a week to one on weekends if there wasn't a Red Sox game on.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:01 (twenty-one years ago)

i cant believe those kids picked up on the space invaders being based on sea creatures. it took me 15 years to figure that out!

― joni, Friday, 17 October 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

ho-lee fuck, i never thought of that.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:41 (twenty-one years ago)

me neither! is that for real? I mean, they're really just dots with dangly bits.

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm on my third season of NFL2K3. The best thing about sports games is that once the newest version comes out, last year's title gets severely reduced. I got it for 9.99 at Virgin Megastore. Anyhow, I'm the Bears, and after 2 losing seasons, I traded away Jim Miller, most of my secondary, Marcus Robinson, and most of my draft picks to get Dante Culpepper, and upgraded my WR's and secondary. And now I'm 6-0! Yay!

But I also have Dark Cloud 2 that I'm borrowing from my friend, and Medal of Honor for the Mac. Has anyone played those two?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

http://spaceinvaders.retrogames.com/ani-invader.gif

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Nothing console-wise - only Golden Sun and its sequel on the GBA. Am much looking forward to the next couple months for new Tony Hawk, new Final Fantasy, and new Mario Kart (CAN'T WAIT FOR THIS ONE!).

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

I used to really like the Final Fantasy series on the SNES - FF6 [err, FF3 I guess] was the absolute best, but FF7 on the PS sucked so badly that I haven't tried any of them since. Am I missing anything good?

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh I just remembered - I'm also playing a remake of the excellent 80's classic Head over Heels. You can, and must, get it from here:-

http://retrospec.sgn.net/games/hoh/

― Lynskey (Lynskey), Friday, 17 October 2003 15:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Dark Cloud 2 is fun, since you can continually level up your characters & get cooler shit.

also, one you get the robot, you can cruise around in stylee. All games should have missle racks in wooden crates.

all games should have action sequences ontop of a train.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:04 (twenty-one years ago)

phil - I'd definitely recommend Final Fantasy X, which moves as fast as the SNES games. One thing I hated about the Playstation FFs were how cumbersome and lengthy the battles were. I think FFX even recently came down in price.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:30 (twenty-one years ago)

I had been playing an emulated Top Gear 2, but boy that got old fast. I need some new ROMs.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:36 (twenty-one years ago)

If you didn't like FF7 (and it's one of my favorite games evah), you probably won't like the subsequent ones, although FF9 is pretty retro and I can't really speak to the PS2 ones.

God, it would be so great if they would put out some of the SNES Final Fantasy games for GBA.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I liked FF8 better than 7. Stats as directly proportional to your spells is bogue.

Dark Cloud 2: any RPG that lets you golf AND fish is classick.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

If they do what Jordan suggests I can kiss those 15-20 minutes of actual productivity I squeeze in at "work" everyday between interweb adventures goodbye.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(I like Teeny's link too, but some of those quotes are highly suspect.)

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

i think that EGM article deserves its own thread. today's youth are a bitchey, smartassed lot.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 16:58 (twenty-one years ago)

To answer the thread: Warcraft 3 on thee iMac. Tragically my weak ass prcoessor makes Neverwinter Nights virtually unplayable. And I have been neglecting my ps 2 for months.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 17 October 2003 17:06 (twenty-one years ago)

xp:

"It's Zeus. He's taking you away to the Acropolis."

bnw has a point.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 17 October 2003 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm. that's possible, tho. thank to my english teacher parents, i was reading books of greek myth when i was in junior high...

note: yes,i know--my scholarly research made me the COOLEST BOY IN SCHOOL. I could lead my school team to victory; take my exams & pass the lot, etc.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 17:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I alternate between:

VICE CITY (PS2) which has been on loan from my friend for the past 6 months and I'm only 18% complete (I have the Vercetti mansion but I'm stuck on the mission where you have to bust all the windows in the mall shops)

and

EA All Star Baseball 2003 (PS2) - last night I played the red sox versus the yankees 2 games of a best of 7 and I won the first game (Pedro) 2-0 and lost the second game (Wakefield) 5-3.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Whenever I play GTA/Vice City I get too carried away to actually accomplish anything, I just go on total anarchy killing/blowing-up/driving-things-off-of/into-other-things sprees until I'm shooting police helicopters out of the sky with rocket launchers and all that.

― nickalicious (nickalicious), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I get too carried away to actually accomplish anything,

That ^^

does not match up with this:

I just go on total anarchy killing/blowing-up/driving-things-off-of/into-other-things sprees until I'm shooting police helicopters out of the sky with rocket launchers and all that.

Unless you mean you're too busy blowing things up to run over pedestrians? :)

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:35 (twenty-one years ago)

dude, we launch buses off the ramps, and try to get them to roll in mid-air

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:52 (twenty-one years ago)

when i drive the bus, i switch to bumper camera mode so you can get a better view of what you're smashing up.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 17 October 2003 18:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, GTA games I always get stuck on a mission and get frustrated and going on wrecking-sprees until the game becomes very boring. Then I leave them 15% finished and never touch them again.

― Ferg (Ferg), Friday, 17 October 2003 19:01 (twenty-one years ago)

bus or coach? Im just glad I found my favorite patriot, though I had a hard time giving it up for a FBI SUV thingy.

― Mr Noodles (Mr Noodles), Friday, 17 October 2003 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Final Fantasy Tactics Advance is really fun. Aside from that Madden 2004 and Soulcalibur 2 for the Xbox, waiting for XIII.

The
last game that really sucked me in was Knights of the Old Republic.

― adam (adam), Friday, 17 October 2003 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax: bring a bike with you into the mall.

― bnw (bnw), Friday, 17 October 2003 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

That's genius if it works.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 17 October 2003 20:50 (twenty-one years ago)

so just park a pcj in the garage first? i would always take the helicopter over there.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 17 October 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Are you using a high power gun to shoot out the windows?
Are you using the infinite run trick?

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 17 October 2003 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

i don't use cheat codes or guides, i'm using the m-16 like gun.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 17 October 2003 22:17 (twenty-one years ago)

It's not a cheat or a code really. You can just tape the sprint button (I forget, is it O?) and you'll be able to sprint for a very long time.

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 17 October 2003 22:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I like golf games!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 18 October 2003 01:48 (twenty-one years ago)

They're relaxing!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 18 October 2003 01:49 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm playing yahoo! pool

― Aaron A., Saturday, 18 October 2003 02:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Trying to decide if I want to start over in Vice City.

Recently ran through Starcraft again and found it much easier! Didn't have to resort to cheats at all this time.

I think Kingfish should be required to start a video game thread each week!

― rob geary (rgeary), Saturday, 18 October 2003 05:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Flipping through a games magazine in the Borders today, I found out not only is the Mario/Luigi rpg coming out soon, but a new Metroid Gameboy game, too -- Metroid Zero Mission or something, a redo of the first Metroid game with improved graphics/gameplay/added abilities from Super Metroid/new levels. Hot damn.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 18 October 2003 05:47 (twenty-one years ago)

I like golf games too!

― oops (Oops), Saturday, 18 October 2003 06:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been playing Golden Sun: The Lost Age for about 4 weeks now. I have clocked up 44 hours and I'm almost at the end. I love this game.

― jel -- (jel), Saturday, 18 October 2003 07:59 (twenty-one years ago)

tropico 2.

arrr! scurvy dogs! plunder on the high seas! arrrrr! etc.

― g-kit (g-kit), Saturday, 18 October 2003 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

big Braben article in this week's Guardian Weekend btw. not read all of it but it seemed to be talking about Elite universe and it's creation.

finished first Jak and Daxter not long ago. either i'm very good or it was rather easy (hint: it's the latter).

have just this week finished PS2 SSX (gold medals for all on Showoff, gold medals for elise in Racing, 50/50 tricks for elise, not going to bother with the others). SSX seemed a lot harder than SSX Tricky somehow.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Saturday, 18 October 2003 11:36 (twenty-one years ago)

What's a good, preferably cheap baseball game for the PS2?

― NA (Nick A.), Saturday, 18 October 2003 11:48 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't remember the name of it because I just woke up, but I've played the one from EASports a lot at my PS2-having friends' house -- I loved it, but it's the only one I've played. It's one of the ones that's updated every year, so if it's not normally cheap, you could probably get last year's at a good price, especially if you got it used. (Electronics Boutique has a pretty quickly-changing used games inventory; at least here, but this is a college town, so they might do a disproportionate amount of business).

Has anyone who doesn't already have a GameCube been swayed by the price drop? I thought about it for a bit -- I have money I've put aside for splurging in New Orleans and could just take it from that -- but then I realized I'm just not going to use a system that needs me to sit in front of the TV a lot. I need the portability of the GBA.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 18 October 2003 13:40 (twenty-one years ago)

na: EA Sports = MVP Baseball 2003... not cheap but the best I've seen.

― gygax! (gygax!), Saturday, 18 October 2003 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

so just park a pcj in the garage first? i would always take the helicopter over there.

Yes! Take out the windows drive by shooting style. (I always crashed the damn helicopter.)

― bnw (bnw), Saturday, 18 October 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

can anyone tell me of any good free games for the mac?

I downloaded this free golf game from apple's site yesterday and it sucks.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

MAME! Yaaaaaay!

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Mr Farrell is currently intently playing Soul Calibur 2 as I type!

I got angry at an annoying bit in the Wind Waker so stopped to go and make curry. Now I am going to knit legwarmers and pretend to myself I am not twitching to get out of the wanky Forbidden Forest. I officially say HOORAY to the Boomerang and BOOO to the wanky DEKU LEAF.

(Yes yes long term board readers I KNOW I have not finished Ocarina yet although I am twitching to get back to it - argh argh though WHERE IS THE CARTRIDGE - in my mess of a room that's what dere lord).

― Sarah (starry), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

Soul Calibur 2 is one of the few reasons I might buy a console, if I had more free time/money. Man -- from what I can tell, there just aren't any decent fighting games for the GBA, and that's practically all I ever played on the PSX.

Hmm, and the GameCube version has Link, that's temptastic.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

game cubes are mega cheap these days eh?

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, they just dropped down to like $99; apparently Nintendo is officially ending GameCube production in favor of their next console. (I assume there are plenty of them in the warehouses, though, since I don't think the next thing comes out till ... next Christmas or something?)

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

(And they're something like $59 used at Electronics Boutique. I sound like I'm really plugging them, I've just been really happy with the deals there.)

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:41 (twenty-one years ago)

discount video gaming is one of the great things about this era.

― s1utsky (slutsky), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Dude: Street Fighter Turbo Alpha (or WHATEVER) for the GBA!!!!

― Sarah (starry), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a Street Fighter game for the GBA? Damn -- the only fighting games I've seen for it are Mortal Kombat Advance and a bunch of never-heard-of-em befores.

― Tep (ktepi), Saturday, 18 October 2003 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

ISS PRO EVOLUTION 3. REAL FOOTBALL HAS RETURNED.

er yeah I'm lovin it like justin.

― Ronan (Ronan), Saturday, 18 October 2003 21:01 (twenty-one years ago)

Me and Andrew have been playing Olympic Gold a fair bit on the Sega and we named our characters Bob Dole and Bob Dylan for added fun. I'm gonna get an X Box soon and it'll replace the N64 as my newest console. The games I really want are Buffy, Crazy Taxi and House of the Dead. Dunno if they're any good.

― Elisabeth (Elisabeth), Sunday, 19 October 2003 06:46 (twenty-one years ago)

P.S. - for nostalgic gaming, have a look at www.the-underdogs.org - its a old game repository. All those games you couldn't afford when you were little? Well - download them now! Its abandonware - which I think is cool, isn't it?

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Sunday, 19 October 2003 15:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh man, that might be the place I had bookmarked before I lost my bookmarks. Do they (I guess I'll just check this in a moment) have all those old Infocom games? I drove myself nuts one holiday break trying to get through some of the Zork games, revisiting Leather Goddesses of Phobos, etc. I was terrible at those games when they were new; I'm worse now.

― Tep (ktepi), Sunday, 19 October 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

(Of course, there are all sorts of interactive fiction games made in the last 10 years that are far better [if less nostalgiac] than anything Infocom put out.)

― Casuistry (Chris P), Sunday, 19 October 2003 22:25 (twenty-one years ago)

MacMAME mostly. Though that Simpsons thingy may make me dust off my Gamecube and blow some hours that I can't afford to blow.

― Matt Maxwell (Matt M.), Monday, 20 October 2003 02:32 (twenty-one years ago)

I was really excited to get that GBA Street Fighter game, and it's a great port, but I just can't get into those new-fangled SF games with all the wacky characters and combos. I understand there is an older GBA version that's just SFII Turbo, now THAT is my game.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 20 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still getting used to ISS Pro Ev 3. Though my friend had to physically restrain himself from punching me earlier: he was leading with Juventus (v. Roma) 1-0 up until 84 minutes and then I scored in the 87th to make it 2-1. He just stormed out refusing to play the rest. haha.

― David. (Cozen), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:17 (twenty-one years ago)

The Simpsons game wins points for having KnightBoat be a playable car.

"But, Marge! KnightBoat! The Crime Fighting Boat!"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 October 2003 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

For some reason, I pulled Deus Ex out of mothballs, and, yes, it is just as cool as I remember.
Now I will try out the "other endings"

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Monday, 20 October 2003 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

But Knightboad is useless without fjords!

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 20 October 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Does the game have fjords?

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 20 October 2003 19:20 (twenty-one years ago)

it does! but, more importantly, knightboat has wheels and little rocket engines.

the game also has KrustyLu Studios, the U.S.S. Jebediah, the "S P R I N G F I E L D" sign, Wall E Weasel's Funtime Factory("We cram fun down your throat!"), etc.

basically, every single Springfield location ever featured is in the game. Ned Flander's Bomb Shelter? The King Tut Music place next to Moes? The Slide Factory? Kamp Krusty and its accompanying Chief Starving Bear Weight Loss Center? They're all there.

the controls of the cars are a bit annoying--way too much skid. But the little humor bits thrown into the game make it worth a rental.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 20 October 2003 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

That's simply awesome. Now I just need a GC.

― Leee (Leee), Monday, 20 October 2003 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

it's coming out on PS2 too, don't fret!

anyone seen or heard anything about worms 3d yet? my brother and i wiled away many hours thumping each other in the arm and playing this game during our teens, interested to see how the new one comes out...

― stevie (stevie), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 07:02 (twenty-one years ago)

never played the series or heard about the game. check ign.com to see what they have.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 12:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i just bought DOshin for 12 quid

wonder if this will bump up into wednesday's new answers

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 12:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Buying Super Mario Advance 4 today, whoo! Metroid Fusion is next, after however many weeks it takes to finish it.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 12:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Sim city 4 is in my brain quite badly, I ate into my green belt last night and I'm worried about polluting my commercial areas. And I can't get the hi-tech industry in, no matter how much I invest in education.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 13:07 (twenty-one years ago)

My city was doing great til I hit the 50,000 mark, when suddenly my commercial RCI demand went negative overnight and all the commercial areas started declining. wtf??

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 13:36 (twenty-one years ago)

did you try for Malls? They're being a bit tricky for me.

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Malls??

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 13:44 (twenty-one years ago)

mmmm, malls available on certain points ewhen you have good demand for commercial, place largeish blocks of dense commercial and away you go!

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

but do you actually get to choose those or do they spontaneously pop up?

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Nooo I will not spend tonight playing Wind Waker... instead I shall tidy my room and hook up Ocarina of Time!! WOOHA!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:11 (twenty-one years ago)

don't think you can choose them, the conditions just have to be right

― chris (chris), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:16 (twenty-one years ago)

FINISH OCARINA. How are you doing?

― Alan (Alan), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I know I know but the cartridge is IN A BOX and I do not know WHICH ONE and bugger me if I'm starting all over again on the GC version. I'm in the Gerudo fortress and I keep getting captured by LAYDEEZ. Stealth is BORING. I couldn't believe it when I started the Wind Waker and had to do the same bolloxing things with those bloody sniffer dogs.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 14:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Rockstar unveiled this....its a little long.

--
Rockstar's reputation precedes them: They're bad people, but in a good way. A
subsidiary of Take-Two Interactive, Rockstar only began building up their name
in recent years, becoming famous for their next-generation iterations of the
Grand Theft Auto series, in which stealing cars and killing people for money is
a way of life. Other franchises, like Midnight Club (underground street racing)
and State of Emergency (deadly rioting mayhem) have lent Rockstar strong appeal
for adult game players, but have parents rinsing their children's eyes out
with. Together with the team that brought millions the open-ended world of
Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, Rockstar's dishing out a new challenge of stealthy
and murderous proportions this fall, called Manhunt.

Inmate James Earl Cash has just learned a new lesson: Don't get yourself locked
up in prison. And especially don't do something so evil you're placed on
deathrow. It just so happens that when James is lead to his demise by way of
lethal injection, instead of waking up dead, he finds himself in Carcer City
with nothing but the shirt on his back. Moreover, he's got a receiver stuck in
his ear, through which an unpleasant male voice chimes in, calling himself the
Director. Dozens of demented gang members have been stuck inside the city with
James, paid off to play a game of Manhunt. The objective for them is to kill
James. The objective for James is to live. There are no rules, nobody to save
you, and nowhere to escape. Kill them before they kill you is the nature of
this elaborate game of cat and mouse. With cameras distributed everywhere
around this sprawling city, the Director calls the shots: To get ready, to get
set, and to go.

Obviously influenced by media like the short story The Most Dangerous Game or
Stephen King's novella for The Running Man (not so much the Arnold
Schwarzenegger flick), Rockstar wants to create the feeling that in Manhunt,
you really are all alone. You can't go toe-to-toe with an entire gang, and if
you try, you'll end up entertainment for the Director who is always watching.
If you think that sounds a bit overwhelming, it will be. If you think there's
no chance of survival, there won't be. That is, unless you learn to adapt to
the environment. Manhunt will put a strong emphasis on stealth, similarly to
Tom Clancy's Splinter Cell and Metal Gear Solid 2: Sons of Liberty. James will
be able to pass from one dark patch to the next, using shadows as cover from
the dozens of freaks out to shred him pieces. In addition to sight, sound is an
integral part in Manhunt. If you run, an enemy will hear you. Conversely, James
can hear pick up on enemies through the sounds that they make. This is not a
run around, kill everything that moves-style game.

Even worse, as the game progresses, the enemies in Carcer City will grow
smarter. They, too, can move and hide through shadows, which is why taking
advantage of the city's environment will be crucial. For example, players can
lure enemies to their position by allowing enemies to detect your location
briefly, and then pouncing on them from the shadows. The trickier you get, the
better off you'll be. From there, grabbing a hold of enemies and taking them
out is just one of the tricks you'll need to learn in order to avoid death's
clammy grasp.

Exactly how can James challenge an entire city littered with armed psychopaths?
Weapons are to be the keys to just about everything in this game. Ranging from
shards of glass to a meat cleaver to a plastic bag or even a sawed-off
double-barrel shotgun, Manhunt's arsenal will facilitate silent melee types of
kills and loud ranged ones as well. When you're one guy facing an army of
crazed lunatics out to get you, you won't be able to just barge in...unless, of
course, there's no other way around it.

Manhunt's visuals will be similar to the GTA series, but leaning heavily toward
the sinister. While the last two Grand Theft Auto games were able to show a
deep rich world with cars negotiating traffic and numerous individual character
models reacting to the environment around them, in Carcer Ciy, the darkness is
in interiors and the back-alleys and not a wide-open city. And in this
darkness, crazy people lurk wearing traditional gang material like masks or
hoods and such. The character models in the last two Grand Theft Auto releases
weren't exactly the most refined 3D models to come out of the oven, and the
ones in Manhunt will be much improved. Sprucing them up with texture effects
will help to create more definition in each of Manhunt's character types.

One of the best ways to instill fear into a person's mind is to isolate them
from security. Take that up a notch and place them in a seemingly inescapable
situation and you've got a real problem. Movies of the past have proven this
kind of torture can bring in the bucks -- and so, Rockstar is hoping to bank on
the same level of success. When November hits, there is bound to be some
controversy as Rockstar delivers a game that doesn't pull punches or mix up its
violence with parody. Still, if there's anything to teach the kids to stay out
of trouble, it's Manhunt.

― Chris V. (Chris V), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't know if I'm tough enough to play Manhunt. Rockstar may have beaten me (obviously they're the only games I bother playing anymore.)

Kingfish! Worms is awesome. It's the same game all the way from the DOS shareware version up to the latest consoles, they just put in better graphics. It's little 2d worm-guys with massive weaponry blasting away at each other. One of the best 2 player games ever! I dunno about this 3d thing though.

― rob geary (rgeary), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 15:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Manhunt

http://64.95.118.51/images/opti/55/9c/1050055-movie-resized200.jpg http://images.rottentomatoes.com/images/movie/allposters/61/007_hard_target_rt.jpg http://www.jeje.nu/arnold/running/poster.jpg http://www.shillpages.com/faywray/fw-p-mostdangerousgame1.gif

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:28 (twenty-one years ago)

here's IGN's take on it, in a barely reworded press release.

"LET'S GET RUNNING!"

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

does no one here own an xbox?

anyway, I just won the national championship in NCAA 2004 with my plucky Saginaw Fighting Princes squad. it took me eight seasons but it was worth it.

picked up a couple of racing games for some reason

and look forward to the next Baldurs Gate and Links 2004 golf

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:47 (twenty-one years ago)

i might get an xbox...to use as a HOUSE AM I RITE OMGLOL!!!11

anyway, i'd get it for Jet Set Radio, the Shenmue games, and the Halos. I haven't seen anything else that's really jumped out at me from it.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:52 (twenty-one years ago)

that Star Wars Knights of ye olde Republic looks good. I hate Star Wars but if it's a good game what the hey.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I loved the original GIGANTIC controller! The buttons were laid out poorly but that's the right size for a controller. For me.

― rob geary (rgeary), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

that controller is great. it's like a giant spud. anything that resembles a potato is automatically the best.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 16:59 (twenty-one years ago)

ESPN Basketball comes out on Wednesday, I fear it will dominate my life for at least a week.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Tuesday, 21 October 2003 18:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm in the Gerudo fortress and I keep getting captured by LAYDEEZ. Stealth is BORING.

Sarah, surely you have arrows? Put 'em to sleep and you'll beat it, FINALLY. ;)

― Leee (Leee), Friday, 24 October 2003 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh damn I have an XBox and I am weeks away from PROJECT GOTHAM 2. Finally, a racing game that has the Ferrari Dino 246! GNAAAH (froth)

― nate detritus (natedetritus), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

I tried DLing Sensible World of Soccer on underdogs and couldn't figure out how to install it.

― David Beckhouse (David Beckhouse), Friday, 24 October 2003 23:36 (twenty-one years ago)

there should be some docs related to it, either in the file, or on the site.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:23 (twenty-one years ago)

also, i'd like to say that the Japanese have put out hentai doujinshi relating to THE LEGEND OF ZELDA, for chrissakes.

clearly, they are a superior culture to us.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 25 October 2003 01:24 (twenty-one years ago)

VIEWTIFUL JOE!!!!!

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 25 October 2003 12:51 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, Viewtiful Joe. the best 2D cel-shaded platform fighter ever made featuring a character from a Mountain Dew ad circa 1993.

http://www.gamerankings.com/screens4/562548/2.jpg

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Fred Durst.

― David. (Cozen), Saturday, 25 October 2003 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

in "Wind Waker", your best friend/method of conveyance/guiding father figure is a talking BOAT. how fucked up is that?

oh, and i just been the forest level. Afterwards, the little talking walking leaf things sang a song to celebrate me. a total YUB NUB scene. This is the tweeest game ever.

― Kingfish (Kingfish), Monday, 27 October 2003 01:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Been playing 'Republic: the Revolution', but not much seems to be happening..

― Baaderist (Fabfunk), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:02 (twenty-one years ago)

I love the little leaf men.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Monday, 27 October 2003 11:15 (twenty-one years ago)

Tony Hawk: Underground out tomorrow. Will I have enough $$$ to purchase it? No one knows.

― NA (Nick A.), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I am in the middle of Icewind Dale II, Warcraft III and Neverwinter Nights: Shadows of Undrentide. I also dusted off my Dreamcast at started playing JoJo's Bizarre Adventure again.

After an arcade epiphany, I MUST get my hands on Capcom vs SNK sometime soon.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 27 October 2003 14:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Super Mario 3 (on GBA) is harder than I remember. Still awesome though. I'm always a little surprised by how much I remember of the levels on these old games...to underline the nostalgia, right after I bought it I heard Salt n' Pepa's "Shoop" on the radio for the first time in godknowshowmany years and realized I remembered all the words.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i've spent the last 3 months (on & off) playing out the wwi scenario for civilization, determined to re-write history in favour of the ottomans.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 27 October 2003 15:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I need mac games! someone give me civilization, any version, I need the thing!

― s1utsky (slutsky), Monday, 27 October 2003 16:02 (twenty-one years ago)

NA,

Thanks for the reminder!

― gygax! (gygax!), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:27 (twenty-one years ago)

you can have mine, slutsky - it's taking up all my free time.
seriously tho; i got civ. by downloading it with limewire - giv'er a try.

― dyson (dyson), Monday, 27 October 2003 17:31 (twenty-one years ago)

three weeks pass...

i just finished ico on ps2...the ending is beautiful

― jack, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 01:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i gave up on Tony Hawk UG due to disappointment. It's a pretty dumb game.

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 01:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Beat Wind Waker last night, am just now starting in on Pikmin. who needs a rewarding or fulfilling life? Not me! I have electonic Japanese cultural imports!

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 01:58 (twenty-one years ago)

GTA III and Vice City are out for the Xbox! Woohoo! And FIFA provides hours of drunk fun.

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 02:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I threw a GC controller against the wall and broke it 'cause the Wind Temple was so fucking annoying. Is it worth going on? (I bought a new controller.)

― adam (adam), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 02:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 02:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm busting out the old skool with SNES9X Custom for OS X and my new MacAlly iShock II pad controller. I'm about a third of the way through "Terranigma" right now. Next up, Chrono Trigger and Secret Of Mana. Whooha!! I also downloaded the xlated version of Super Robot Wars 3!

― TOMBOT, Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:16 (twenty-one years ago)

tiger woods 2004 owns me like jack daniels owns john daly.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 03:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Millar has MacAlly => no-one will ever hear from him again. (I am the funniest man alive)

I was so going to get a US PS2 simply because Chrono Cross was never released on PAL. But then my friends bought me a regular one.

I am not now playing Prince of Persia for one reason only: it's only released this Friday.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 11:13 (twenty-one years ago)

I've just been hit on by a FAIRY in Wind Waker. Heavens.

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

BUT I can inform you that after getting annoyed trying to enter "a cold spot" (NO SPOILAZ eh foax) I started a go on Super Monkey Ball. Specifically, Monkey Race.

HOURS LATER I FINALLY CAME SECOND!!!

― Sarah (starry), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 11:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Medal of Honor: Rising Sun. Easy as pie.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 12:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Tony Hawk Underground, it's too easy. I've only been playing it for a couple of weeks, and I've almost beaten it, and I'm a shitty videogamer.

― NA (Nick A.), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Also 30 games into NHL 2004 season. And on my eight season of Madden 2004. I have no life.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 13:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Pikmin is another delightfully fuct-up game. You command a legion of color-coded cocktail onions to do your bidding.

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

My life is as bereft of human contact as one can get. I hope they come out with a pigeon feeding game for the xbox (park bench included).

After taking Saginaw to the National Championship I decided to take a coaching job with the Wyoming Cowboys and bump up the skill level. In my first season at Laramie I'm now 0-6 with UCONN up next. If I don't win this one I may have to join the rodeo.

Links 2004 for the xbox has arrived and it's pretty sweet- Tiger Woods has more courses and more exciting gameplay but Links is definitely more of a sim than TW. Also the graphics are sharper. Hopefully they'll come up with some more courses (there are 9 so far).

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 14:54 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm FINALLY nearing the end of Icewind Dale II. I'd given up on one group and started playing a group modelled on R.A. Salvatore's Icewind Dale series (Drizzt, Regis, Bruenor, Wulfgar, Cattie-Brie, Robillard) but got impatient because my original group was about 8,000,000 times stronger. Sorcerers >>>>>>>>> Wizards.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, there was an unlockable Drizzt character in Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance, is this the same 'universe'?

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh and I had to purchase a new Ps2 in order to play these games. I have an old one (ps2) that works, but not with sports games for some reason and I am willing to give it to someone for free. Anyone want it?

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, I got an advance of the new R.A. Salvatore book, would you want it (although for all I know it's out now)?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:15 (twenty-one years ago)

if you want the ps2 I'll send it to you as well. just let me know.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Yay for giving away free stuff! Um, I'd like a PS2?

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:17 (twenty-one years ago)

seriously. I have no use for it as I now have a new one. Like I said you may have some trouble with some games, but other than that it should be ok.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, there was an unlockable Drizzt character in Baldurs Gate: Dark Alliance, is this the same 'universe'?

Yes. Icewind Dale is done by the same company as the Baldur's Gate folks.

Also, anyone who wants to give me free stuff can click on the email address! (The new R.A. Salvatore is out but it isn't in my budget at the moment.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I have been spending hours on Pokemon Ruby. It starts off pretty linear and then there's a point 4 or 5 badges in when you suddenly have tons of routes you can explore and your berry-planting is going well and you've been entering contests and suddenly you think, fucking hell this game is MASSIVE.

― Tico Tico (Tico Tico), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

feel free to also post images here of fun/whacked-out/weird japanese pop cultural products that pop up in your game:

http://www.gamecubicle.com/images/pikmin-nyc-2.jpg
Here, we see several helpful Pikmin on the streets of New York.

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:21 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing this game where I click on a bunch of blue lines and turn them into purple lines; I think I'm almost done with the first board. But I've been thinking that for weeks.

― teeny (teeny), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris and Dan, check your respective (or each other's, it doesn't really matter) e-mails.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:44 (twenty-one years ago)

jordan, i can't check my yahoo mail from work. its banned for some reason.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:45 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, I can't check my hotmail from work. It's banned for stupid reasons. Anyway I just said that if no one else has dibs, I would LOVE a free ps2, I've wanted one for a long time but you know money etc. etc. I'd gladly pay shipping charges and all (sent my address in the e-mail).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 15:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I am pouting because Jordan got the free PS2. But hey, free book!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, your wife probably wouldn't be pleased anyways.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:14 (twenty-one years ago)

She wouldn't be as upset if it was free!

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Really? Are you allowed to play when she is around. My wife has strict rules on this. Luckily she still gets home three hours later than I.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend demands I get DDR if I get a PS2, so she can play too.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:21 (twenty-one years ago)

my wife used to play the SIMS. Until I traded it in for Madden. She doesn't know though, I told her I loaned it to my friend. Im so nice.

― Chris B. Sure (Chris V), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Ha, the sole purpose of my laptop for the last few weeks is for my girlfriend to play the Sims.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:24 (twenty-one years ago)

hey, dig it: somebody posted an preview ad for FF12.

as we see, Square Enix continues its fine traditions of having both rather effeminate/borderline bishounen lead blonde male characters and lead demure brunettes who apparently back that azz up. Christina Ag's fashion designs have pervaded across the seas!

And note the little happy piratey-guy in the lower-right-hand corner. To quote the guy on the SA forum that i stole this from, "WHY am I not living in Japan? "

― Jeremy the Kingfish (Kingfish), Tuesday, 18 November 2003 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

revive for Xmas;
just got PS2, "Simpsons
Hit and Run" (which rules),

also "Need for Speed:
Underground" (which kinda rules),
what is next for me?

― Haikunym (Haikunym), Friday, 26 December 2003 16:01 (twenty-one years ago)

have been playing FFX2. there's a scene where your female lead has to dress up and infiltrate the enemies' HQ. She has to give the main bad chick a massage, too, by straddling her back. You get points for your technique if it reaches a certain spot on the chick's "satisfaction" level. At the end of it, the main bad chick falls asleep.

note: i am not lying.

― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Friday, 26 December 2003 16:15 (twenty-one years ago)

iss till i die

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 December 2003 18:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Prince of Persia and Return of the King for Xmas. Both are great, one in a 'stylish running along walls/somersaulting over people's heads and killing them on the way down' way, the other in a 'piling up fifty green corpses in 10 seconds of frenzied button mashing' way.

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Friday, 26 December 2003 18:17 (twenty-one years ago)

how much is ROTK like the Two Towers game? Two Towers was great in a "Golden Axe 2K3" way.

― El Santo Claus (Kingfish), Friday, 26 December 2003 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

my bro got hit and run it is cool.

― RJG (RJG), Friday, 26 December 2003 18:39 (twenty-one years ago)

It's longer and a bit easier to play without getting confused. It's slightly more grandiose and impressive, and there are three paths where you play as different sets of characters. The Two Towers one annoyed me a bit but this one's really good.

― Ferrrrrrg (Ferg), Friday, 26 December 2003 18:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I don't suppose the LotR games for GBA could be too amazing, *sigh*.

I got Castlevania: Aria of Sorrow, which I am very psyched about.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 26 December 2003 19:00 (twenty-one years ago)

EYE TOY MOTHERFUCKERS!

my brother got it for me, I kung fued myself into a sweat all day yesterday. Today I have been dancing, oh yeah, boogie nights and moloko and two other more anonymous songs, oh the co-ordination!

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 26 December 2003 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I am plaaaying as I tipe tihs.

― cozen (Cozen), Friday, 26 December 2003 19:58 (twenty-one years ago)

FFX-2 for me, Prince of Persia for brother. Both seem like they will be great so far.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Friday, 26 December 2003 21:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Master Of Orion (downloaded as abandonware) is totally still addicting.

― Sterling Clover (s_clover), Saturday, 27 December 2003 06:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Eyetoy RoX0rs my boX0rs - mirror time is pure drunken party-game joy.

Just finished Gladius, which I think may be made of crack. There are numbers, which go up, and then it is six days later. (Also, the lamest plot of any game evah). Now, pouring endless hours into Deadly Rooms Of Death - puzzley genius in the hizzouse.

― Gregory Henry (Gregory Henry), Saturday, 27 December 2003 06:38 (twenty-one years ago)

most of the last couple of days has been spent dressing tony hawk up in a top hat and tie-dye t-shirt and drowning him in san fransisco bay. apparently there's some skateboarding involved too but i haven't got past the dressing up and mutilation bits. (pro skater 4 rather than thug)

my copy of ssx3 is currently still in amazon.co.uk's warehouse. amazon.co.uk - putting the 'meh' into 'merry christmas'.

andy

― koogs (koogs), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 20:36 (twenty-one years ago)

For christmas, Dark Chronicle and Ratchet & Clank 2 - both involve the protagonist hitting things with a wrench a lot, there the literal similarities end.

I will soon get a copy of hit-and-run, I hope. I didn't much like the idea, but the demo was cool - "it's like Grand Theft Auto, except with platforming/collecting, and it's written by the simpsons writers? Allrighty!"

The future will also feature FFX2 and Gamecube versions of Prince of Persia and Beyond Good & Evil, as soon as they're released on this benighted continent.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 31 December 2003 21:41 (twenty-one years ago)

I got Ratchet and Clank 2 also. It's fun, but I'm a sucker for that kind of game.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 1 January 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally got this game Re-Volt, which I was totally addicted to the demo of like four-five years ago.
It's quite fun, and doesn't get as quickly boring as most racing games do (ie I manage to play it more than three times without hating it, only other racing game that ever did that for me was Lotus Esprit Turbo Challenge 2 on the Amiga)
I'm also been thinking about getting into Mechwarrior 3, and eventually playing Thief and System Shock 2 (they've been shelved for years, since I never feel like gaming, heh)
Anyhoo, everyone should try out Re-Volt. It's several grams of fun.

― Øystein H-O (Øystein H-O), Thursday, 1 January 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

okay, i'm now on Dynasty Warriors 4. I am an medieval chinese warrior smashing up with, and i have a big sword and an eyepatch.

this game is great.

― Kingfish Beatbox Botox Funktion (Kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2004 04:37 (twenty-one years ago)

CALL OF DUTY wahoo

it's pretty impressive but the relentless cinema cribbing and to-the-second scripting felt kinda o-ppressive the second time thru. plenty of great gaspy moments but there's not a lot of freedom.

― g--ff (gcannon), Friday, 13 February 2004 05:19 (twenty-one years ago)

If Dynasty Warriors had actual on-screen disembowelment it'd be the most cathartic experience ever

― ferg (Ferg), Friday, 13 February 2004 06:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

I haven't played it in a few days now because I'm at the last point and I don't want it to end.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 13 February 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

IT'S THAT GOOOD!@

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 13 February 2004 06:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing that right now too, and it IS that good.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 February 2004 07:26 (twenty-one years ago)

You playing it dark or light?

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 13 February 2004 07:31 (twenty-one years ago)

WORMS 3D - it owns my world, and the worlds of all my housemates.

― stevie (stevie), Friday, 13 February 2004 09:22 (twenty-one years ago)

playing it light first.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Friday, 13 February 2004 09:26 (twenty-one years ago)

just finished the rather dissapointing Silent Hill 2 on ps2, I am reluctant to buy the third one so have started on Resident Evil 3 again instead

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 February 2004 14:59 (twenty-one years ago)

NHL 2004 still, year three of my dynasty. Moving on to All-Star baseball in March. And when are they coming out with a new Grand Theft Auto?

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:00 (twenty-one years ago)

next year, prob.

― Kingfish Beatbox Botox Funktion (Kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:02 (twenty-one years ago)

Its supposed to be in Vegas i hear. hmmm.

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thoroughly enjoying Secret weapons over Normandy but I haven't really had the time to play it, especially as my champ man addiction is still in full effect

― chris (chris), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:06 (twenty-one years ago)

How come this Knights of the Old Republic game isn't out for PS2?

― Chris V (Chris V), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:10 (twenty-one years ago)

JET SET RADIO FUTURE!!!!!!!! Also, Neverwinter Nights (for the third time), KOTOR (dark side) and NBA 2K3 (why is this harder than the NFL games???).

I tried Arcanum again but it still sucks. Grrr.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:12 (twenty-one years ago)

gta vice city, worms 3d. I like worms, I wish I had some mates to play it with, haha.

As ever pro ev soccer 3, I routed my friend yesterday, it was fun. It gets very heated.

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:16 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing Arx Fatalis, a nice long first person RPG. The only RPG I've ever played where you have to feed your character

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Pang. (Not May Pang - although I now like May's posts more and more because they make me think of balloon popping fun hurrah).

In the Wind Waker I can't sodding cross the pool of lava bit to get to the you know what in the watery you know where. ARRRRRRRRRRRRRGH.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, shoot it with an ice arrow.

― Kingfish Beatbox Botox Funktion (Kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I really have to buy a gamecube to play Zelda, if not just for the spooky eyes!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:36 (twenty-one years ago)

So you swing across to the final floaty rock bit, then shoot ice arrow where the flames come up? I swear I've tried this a zillion times and rien!

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Sarah, shoot at it from your boat.

― Kingfish Beatbox Botox Funktion (Kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I am valiantly resisting making a horrible comment about shooting arrows from your nappy dugout.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:46 (twenty-one years ago)

(That was sub-Ramosi at best.)

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:47 (twenty-one years ago)

My girlfriend got me an Xbox for my birthday so I've been gaming joyfully. So far we've been playing ridiculous amounts of DDR Ultramix and I've been playing Vice City on my own.

I got KOTOR as well...I only put in about 20 minutes so far, I'm going to get through GTA first. The combat system being so automatic & behind-the-scenes was kind of a shock, but I'm sure things get more interesting.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:50 (twenty-one years ago)

This weekend will see the end of Dark Chronicle, yes. Then I will be free.

Next weekend, Prince of Persia is released.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 13 February 2004 15:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Kingfish, I don't have the boat, I'm in You Know Who's lair after breaking through something in the watery place, hem hem.

― Sarah (starry), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:18 (twenty-one years ago)

hunh? where at?

you can also check gamefaqs for hints, too

― Kingfish Beatbox Botox Funktion (Kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Starry: Pattern. There's an order in all things. Exhibited in similar things.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:34 (twenty-one years ago)

playing nethack on a friday the 13 sucks so much that I changed my computer calendar to feb 14.

― Sébastien Chikara (Sébastien Chikara), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing Arx Fatalis as well!! It's REALLY er "immersive".

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:37 (twenty-one years ago)

Pashmina, have you been to the Goblin fortress where you have to try to talk to Goblin El Presidente'?

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Friday, 13 February 2004 16:44 (twenty-one years ago)

still playing EA MVP Baseball 2003 every once in a blue moon... Franchise mode is awesome...

Best players to trade for:

1B = Derrek Lee
RF = Larry Walker (I was suprised) or Bobby Abreu
CF = Jim Edmonds
RP = Choate (NYY), Spooneybarger (FLA), F-Rod, Zach Day (MON), Hendrickson (TOR), Zerbe (SF)
SP = Oliver Perez (SD)... seriously one of the best players in the game... will win a Cy Young for you eventually, AJ Burnett, Zito, Damian Moss (SF)... ???, Kaz Ishi (LA), Prior's not bad either.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:10 (twenty-one years ago)

The combat system being so automatic & behind-the-scenes was kind of a shock, but I'm sure things get more interesting.

Yeah, it took me a while to get into it as well, but when you have twelve enemies attacking your party of three, it can get pretty intense. Next time I play it though, I'm going to turn off all the auto-pausing. It's really too easy with it turned on.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:18 (twenty-one years ago)

Does it make it easier? A friend suggested turning auto-pausing on to make it feel more like normal RPG turn-based combat.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Also the dark/light thing seems pretty sweet, even though my first thought was 'sweet, a SW game that lets you be evil', I was surprised at how years of proper video games and driven in the instinct to 'do the right thing'.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I was surprised at how years of proper video games and driven in the instinct to 'do the right thing'.

well, also because it was hardcoded into the game, i.e. "doing the right thing" = "getting the better ending"

i guess, as opposed to "being evil" = "getting the ending where you character is rich and gets the hot ass female lead and served breakfast in bed for the rest of life"

― Kingfish Beatbox Botox Funktion (Kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Splinter Cell... lovin' the stealth games.

― PVC (peeveecee), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:43 (twenty-one years ago)

well, also because it was hardcoded into the game, i.e. "doing the right thing" = "getting the better ending"

Yeah, exactly what I mean, you just assume that's what the game wants you to do.

If the evil = breakfast in bed thing works in real life, it's something I'm going to have to look into.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:46 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm at the very end of KOTR and so far there've only been a couple of points in the game that really seemed challenging. This is with the skill set to "normal". I just figure turning off auto-pausing will make things a bit harder because I'll have to think more on my feet and probably make the game a bit more enjoyable for me since turn-based RPGs aren't really my thing to begin with.

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 13 February 2004 17:58 (twenty-one years ago)

Winning Eleven 7 when it's released in the states on the 17th! My friend Scott has the multi-tap and playing two v. two is way too much fun. Anyone out there who is already enjoying PES 3 care to tell me how much better the new version is?

― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone playing Deus Ex 2: Invisible War yet? I'mthisclose to actually laying out money for it now but I'm fearing a letdown after the beauty of the original.

― Sean Carruthers (SeanC), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i seriously cannot wait for winning eleven 7.

― Yanc3y (ystrickler), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

What's Winning Eleven 7?

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 February 2004 18:50 (twenty-one years ago)

i think it's the greatest sports video game ever (sorry tecmo bowl, you must step down)...

http://www.gameinformer.com/News/Story/200401/N04.0113.1847.49183.htm

― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Heh, I'll check it out later. I would've looked it up myself except my work blocks all game-related sites.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:15 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm with you Yanc3y. from what i understand it definitely improves upon WE6 and that's all i need to know. lord help me from losing my job, my fiance, and everything else i've got once this game is in my hands.

― metfigga (metfigga), Friday, 13 February 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

Deus Ex 2 is supposedly very short, and disappointed a lot of folks who felt it was dumbed down for console owners.

still, you pays your money, you takes your chances.

― Kingfish Beatbox Botox Funktion (Kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Hooray, they dumbed it down for me!

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:15 (twenty-one years ago)

IGN review: http://pc.ign.com/articles/442/442591p1.html

― Kingfish Beatbox Botox Funktion (Kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Darius Gaiden (via MAME)
It's like crack. I can't stop playing it.

― Lord Custos Omicron (Lord Custos Omicron), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually for the first time now I have a console and a pc that can handle games, but it just seems easier to go with the console ones...they'll definitely work, won't fill up my hard drive, and can be played near a couch. Let the PC gamer ridicule commence.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

My friend just got me a coupon for MVP Baseball 2004 (baseball fans, read this article). It looks shockingly attractive.

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:38 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll be investing in a new PC when Doom 3 comes out.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 13 February 2004 20:49 (twenty-one years ago)

..IF....

also, I'm still waiting for Half Life 2. Like THAT will be out this year, too....

― Kingfish Beatbox Botox Funktion (Kingfish), Friday, 13 February 2004 21:08 (twenty-one years ago)

Lufia: Rise of the Sinistrals on SNES! oh boy oh boy

― Curt1s St3ph3ns, Friday, 13 February 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

OMG, HALO 2, TOO!@

― may pang (maypang), Friday, 13 February 2004 21:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm thinking of purchasing a video game system so I can play Tony Hawk Underground. Advised?

I haven't played video games since my brother got a SuperNintendo for his 10th birthday.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:03 (twenty-one years ago)

f-zero x, n64.

― cozen (Cozen), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I just recently beat KOTOR playing light, but I think I'll have to wait until school's over to go through it again, or else I may flunk out. If you play dark, though, do all of your lackey characters (except I suppose Canderous and that evil robot) constantly self-rightuously harangue you about being such a bad dude? That would be kind've annoying.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, they do. You'd think they'd get used to your actions after a while but they keep going at it til the very end.

Is it just me or are ranged weapons pretty much useless? Maybe I just didn't do my stats properly but the next time I play it (light side) I don't think I'm going to bother upgrading range attack skills at all. Besides, melee fights are a lot cooler to watch.

― maypang (maypang), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:52 (twenty-one years ago)

yeah, Sam, go ahead & buy it. it'll be fun.

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 02:54 (twenty-one years ago)

am i right to guess that Winning Eleven 7 is the same game as Pro Evolution Soccer 3??

― ken c (ken c), Wednesday, 18 February 2004 03:00 (twenty-one years ago)

There's a decent chance I'll buy a PlayStation 2 just to be able to play Fight Club: The Video Game.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 18:46 (twenty-one years ago)

gygax, All Star Baseball is the best one for realism. Best baseball sim out there. Not a homerun fest.

― Chris V (Chris V), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:02 (twenty-one years ago)

but what kind of system should I buy? I know nothing about video games and it must be relatively inexpensive.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I think the GameCube is cheapest, Sam, now that they cut the price in half in order to compete with PlayStation and Xbox. Gameboy Advance SP (make sure to get the SP, it's the cooler looking one, it's square; regular Gameboy Advance doesn't have a backlight) is about the same price, though, and portable.

(The GBA version of THUG might not have all the features the console versions have, I don't know; it's the only one I've played, cause I don't really play console games anymore.)

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:06 (twenty-one years ago)

i have no idea what console means but i'll take yr advice. I imagine I wouldn't miss the missing features since I will be so overwhelmed in the first place.

never quite managed to master Super Mario Bros. . .

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:10 (twenty-one years ago)

Chris V. you are kidding yourself!

Please click here:
MVP Baseball 2004 by Electronic Arts (EA Sports) cheats hints tips gamefaq

― gygax! (gygax!), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Console -- games you have to hook up to your TV. It just doesn't work for me, because half the time I only want to play for a couple minutes of distraction, and it isn't worth futzing with all the plugs.

(Plus, can't bring the TV on the bus or plane.)

I'd play with it in the store first if you can, just to make sure you don't mind the small screen.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Next weekend, Prince of Persia is released.

And then two days later it's done. It a very good game and all, but I have to wonder whether the people drooling over it have ever played Ico.

Sam: tiny Bam Margera in the palm of your hand or large and detailed Bam Margera on your telly.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:21 (twenty-one years ago)

hmm, i have a nice big tv and would want to use that. i never ride on buses, trains or planes anyway. Global warming reprezent!

andrew's got the right idea. :)

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sam, you made your living once doing things on computers, yes? why would mere video game systems overwhelm you?

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

not the systems, the games. i'm afraid I'll get a panic attack.

And I did graphic design/HTML, not really computer like except in the way a painter uses a brush.

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 19:31 (twenty-one years ago)

pes3 and winning eleven seven are the same. i've been playing we7 for a few days now and having a hell of a time scoring goals. anyone having any success with any particular method of attack? there seems to be swarms of defenders in the box whenever i attempt to shoot. ugh.

the game's beautiful though, the players are much more fluid.

― metfigga (metfigga), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

PES 3 and WE 7 are not necessarily the same. From a recent email from pesinsight.com:

"As you may be aware this week in Japan "Winning Eleven 7: International" is being released. This game is not to be confused with the American release, which is essentially a port of PES3 with a few additional in-game textures. The Japanese version is a completely upgraded version of WE7 (PES3 in Europe). Although this game is not what will be PES4, it is almost certain that all the new features included in that game will make it to PES4 (This is going of the same theory that has been used for all previous 'Final Evolution' (International this time around) releases). No further news is available at the present time regarding WE8 or PES4, however below are a short list of features in WE7:I Japan.

- Goalkeepers kits can be edited
- Stadium Names can be edited
- New animations for penalty kicks: some players won't run up to the ball but will simply stand beside the football, take one step and shoot
- Ability to view records of previous 3 matches in ML and league modes
- 45 players will be available for the Japanese national team
- Handballs drastically reduced
- Additional in-game animations
- Updated players and clubs from season 2003/2004

If you can not wait until the Autumn for Winning Eleven 8 or winter for Pro Evolution Soccer 3, you can order the Japanese version of WE7:I to be played on your modified Playstation 2 (see Editing Forum for details) from Play-Asia by copying and pasting the following link into your web browser.

http://www.play-asia.com/SOap-23-83-6hb-84-j-70-30o-71-45.html

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 23:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been on an old emulator kick for a couple weeks now. Commadore 64 to Nintendo to Genesis to Super Nintendo. The last few days mostly just Lemmings (I used to have the computer version, still do but lost the codes, but am now playing the SNES version.) I'm at level 14 in Taxing that's like 74 levels in. I've got like 46 to go.

― A Nairn (moretap), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 23:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Actually, now I read that properly, it seems to be talking about Winning Eleven 7: International which is probaly diff. from plain WE 7. Sorry.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Tuesday, 24 February 2004 23:26 (twenty-one years ago)

I just finished Ratchet & Clank: Going Commando yesterday. Probably the first game I've ever beat without cheating. It's great fun, you get to do all sorts of different things: there are spaceship battle levels, giant robot battle levels, hoverbike racing levels, all in addition to the usual jump/fight/etc. levels.

― NA (Nick A.), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:19 (twenty-one years ago)

the name of the game is: "rachet and clank: going commando"?

that sounds very fruity and exotic.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 00:26 (twenty-one years ago)

It's called "Ratchet & Clank 2:Locked and Loaded" in the UK, if that de-fruits it a bit.

― Adam Wayne (AdamWayne), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:00 (twenty-one years ago)

GTA3 throws me off...you're in America I assume, yet the radio is playing big US rawk star Chris Rea (!) and all the chat show hosts use supremely British expressions like 'bored of'. Glad I got that off my chest.

― Donna Brown (Donna Brown), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Who can recommend a good free game (that isn't text-based or the Commander Keen demo?)

― The Second Drummer Drowned (Atila the Honeybun), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been playing SSX3 lately.

― Stuart (Stuart), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:16 (twenty-one years ago)

"Who can recommend a good free game"

lots of these games here:

http://www.theoldcomputer.com/Libarary's/Emulation/ROMs_summary.htm

emulators are there too.

― A Nairn (moretap), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:36 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm well into simcity 4 now I have the hang of it. One thing that has me stumped though - how on earth do you get rid of landfill zones? Once theyre being used I cant unzone them, I cant bulldoze them, nothing! I put some in a DUMB place and all my factories are being vacated. I mean I gave up and started a new region anyway but this city was getting nice and big and now its all smelly :(

― Trayce (trayce), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Gygax, check this out.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 02:50 (twenty-one years ago)

does it have minor leagues and every stadium ever from the majors?

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Can I get a wot-wot for Mario Kart: Double Dash??

― Leee = y'know... whitey (Leee), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 03:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I know it has every stadium and last years had minor leagues. it also had this, which really sticks in my craw.
http://www.acclaim.com/games/asb2005/screens/images/screen22.jpg

I've bought this game every yr since 02 and nothing else compares.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Check it out here. Grapefruit Leagues...

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 10:56 (twenty-one years ago)

Phantasy Star Chronicles on the GBA. Sadly though it is impossible to play on public transport due to pre-SP lighting so I either I play at home squinting under the overhead light (where I have crochet to do, TV to watch, food to cook, music to listen to, stuff to read, things to write ect) or er... I don't. Grrrr. It's alright so far, like the majority of RPGs I think, you just have to grit your teeth whilst you level up to something decent.

― Sarah (starry), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 11:01 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm also playing America's Army a lot these days on my pc. Trying to pass the Special Forces training so I can be a total badass.

― Chris V (Chris V), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 13:02 (twenty-one years ago)

so if I get a system should it be Xbox or PS2?

― Viva La Sam (thatgirl), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Well, I got an Xbox (or rather my girlfriend got it for me for my birthday), but I don't think it matters much at this point. Xbox has Knights of the Old Republic and Halo, PS2 has Final Fantasy/Square games. Xbox has better graphics (so I'm told) and the hard drive for ripping cd's and such, PS2 has more games (right?). It seems like most of the cool games come out for both systems though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

ive started playing games on the pc again, after a decade long break.
ive been playing 'total war' which is ace and 'castle wolfsheim' which is a shooter game thats not bad, but not really my thing.

any good baseball games for pc out there?

― kephm, Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ps2 has a better controller, imho

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Wednesday, 25 February 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought MechAssault for $20 and started playing it last night. It's really cool, and fun, but DAMN is it hard (or I suck, which is the more likely explanation). Couldn't get past the first level.

That's okay though, because my girlfriend is going to be gone for the night, so it'll just be me and my vengeance.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm convinced that SOCOM is the new stoner video game. this past weekend, i've witnessed people just sit on the couch and play it endlessly, occasionally using the mic to swear at each other.

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

mgs2 (an: msg²) and pro ev 3 still. these are the only next-gen games I love. O and halo.

― cozen (Cozen), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:41 (twenty-one years ago)

Will I regret it if I buy that new Kirby game for the GameCube?

― jel -- (jel), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

I saw MGS2 for twenty bucks too, but I had heard it's as many hours of mind-numbing story as fun game.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:45 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.vgmuseum.com/pics/SuperC_Title.gif

― dean! (deangulberry), Thursday, 4 March 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

also, been playing much SSX Tricky lately.

oh, i do enjoy putting my boarders thru the most painful situations possible.

― Kingfish Beatbox (Kingfish), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been playing Maniac Mansion on the Nintendo emulator. What should I download next?

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 4 March 2004 20:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been playing Wolfenstein: Enemy Territory. It's really good (and free!) but I wish there were more maps available. The six default ones are great, but 90% of the user-made ones are crap.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Thursday, 4 March 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

play Super Dodge Ball next.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Thursday, 4 March 2004 23:24 (twenty-one years ago)

i know its old school but ive just been getting back into MAFIA for the pc! it has to be one of the best games ever, the game is probally the most realistic game ever, its a whole city, set in the 30s/40s and every one you speak to has something to say, or do.
is there any other lovers of this great game?!

Ive also been playing championship manager 03/04, almost non-stop, recently. Im playing for arsenal, and have a all star team, including all the regular arsenal players, i have: edgar Davids(4million), Tim Howard(10 million), Cruz(free), Collochini(free), juan(9 million), jose antinio reyes(27 million!!), mark viduka(6 million), and soon to get alan smith!(3 million! Alan smith was a bargin, leeds went into receivership, so i made a 3 million bid for the 8 million rated player! Mark Viduka, is a snide one to look out for, right of the begginnig of the season, you can sign him for only 6 million due to his minimum fee release clause! I got most the funds for this, due to selling patrick viera for 40 million!

― gaol clichy (clichy), Friday, 5 March 2004 10:10 (twenty-one years ago)

I just got True Crime for the PS2 and I think it's crap. Apart from the fact it's full of bugs I cannot stand the control system. pooooh!

― Ste (Fuzzy), Friday, 5 March 2004 10:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Okay, I'm on like level 5 of MechAssault now and it's great. Makes me wish I had more video game-playing friends in town though (I'm not going to pay for Xbox live).

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 5 March 2004 16:40 (twenty-one years ago)

two weeks pass...

I'm playing Arx Fatalis as well!! It's REALLY er "immersive".

-- Pashmina (pashmina@f), February 13th, 2004.

Pashmina, have you been to the Goblin fortress where you have to try to talk to Goblin El Presidente'?

-- lawrence kansas (lawrence_kansas@h), February 13th, 2004.

I'm way past that bit now. I forget, what did you have to do again? Put some wine in his food, b/c it disagrees w/him, then when he runs out of the throne room w/the shits (!) you can talk to him while he's on the crapper (!!)

Where I am up to now is the haunted crypt in the little underground town. I was playing this bit quite late at night, and the spooky bits were very effectively and cleverly done. I actually got the ph34r a couple of times!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 14:04 (twenty-one years ago)

I bought an X-Men fighting game for Xbox. It's not, you know, "good" but it was $13, it has X-Men, and they fight.

Other than that I got my two free months of Xbox live, and I'm addicted to playing MechAssault after work.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 15:20 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah, did you get it at EBGames used?

WHERE CAN I FIND SOUL CALIBUR II FOR LESS THAN $20????

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:41 (twenty-one years ago)

It was at this joint by my place called Game Crazy, attached to Hollywood Video. I had my fingers on a used copy of Soul Calibur II for $35, but just couldn't do it. You'd think it would be in their 'platinum hitz' or whatever line by now (which is pretty much the best thing ever btw, getting Hitman 2 and MechAssault new for $20).

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 16:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I found a place that sells SCII NEW for $35; I may swing by there come next paycheck.

I just finished the JSRF story mode! YAY! Now I have to get all of the graffiti souls! Um, yay? (Attempting to jump on one particular ledge for 20 minutes != happy fun time, but I REALLY want all of the characters!)

FAve JSRF character so far = Soda, with Garam/Boogie as a close second. Cube doesn't seem as cool in this one as she did in the first one and MY GOD BEAT AND GUM ARE TEH SUCK.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 23 March 2004 18:24 (twenty-one years ago)

Haha, this thread has poisoned me. I stopped by the OTHER video game store in my neighborhood after work and they not only had SCII for $30, but it was a one day 10% sale so I pretty much had no choice. What a great fighting game, it makes me wish I had game-playing friends (my girlfriend refused to play it with me, imagine).

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:21 (twenty-one years ago)

MVP Baseball 2004, but some aspects of the simming piss me off. Every major leaguer is "one of the top at his position!" and players bitch about playing time for no apparent reason (every closer I've had - Foulke, Gagne even Urbina) has bitched about playing time.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Speaking of which, anyone have any recommendations for a baseball game for the Gameboy? Obviously the best features of the console versions are going to be amputated in the portable version, but I'm not gonna go console. I've pretty much accepted that some game genres -- fighting games, racing games -- don't translate well to the Gameboy, but I'd cut a decent baseball game some slack.

― Tep (ktepi), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 03:32 (twenty-one years ago)

Metal Gear Solid: Twin Snakes. I'd only watched a friend play the first MGS, so this is as good as the first time for me. Can't complain much about the gameplay (best of MGS1 and 2), but they re-did a lot of the dialogue (to worse effect). Can't complain though, got it for $25.

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 06:14 (twenty-one years ago)

similar to tep's question: i want a golf game for the gameboy! suggestions?

― s1ocki (slutsky), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 06:17 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been playing MGS: Twin Snakes for the Cube as well. Since Metal Gear Solid for the original Playstation is my favorite game ever, I had to get it. It rocks, except for the redone voicework.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I was holding out hope that they kept Meryl's voicework intact, but alas, only the Snakes and Ocelot seem to have remained the same.

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Most of it I didn't mind too much, since it was close enough, but the woman doing Naomi's voice sounds completely bored.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 07:54 (twenty-one years ago)

just got ps2 monday, only bought vice city. wont need another game for a month. probably get the latest fifa then.

― Aaron Grossman (aajjgg), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 08:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep - advance war on the GB helps my commute just fly by.

mario kart is pretty ace too

― chris (chris), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 09:46 (twenty-one years ago)

Far Cry, OMG.

― Jarlr'mai (jarlrmai), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 11:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I know nothing about baseball and golf games, otherwise I'd offer a suggestion.

― Dan Perry (Dan Perry), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 13:41 (twenty-one years ago)

one of the reported reasons why the voice work is different is that the original actress died.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

For Naomi?? Criminy. I also miss the old Mei Ling. FOB it up yo.

― O.Leee.B. (Leee), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone know about the rumors re: microsoft cutting the price on the xbox? if it slips into the 150 range I might pick one up..

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Yes! That's it. I realized the depths of my existence when I realized I spent two days trying to induce diarrhea in a Goblin.

Now I'm near the end- I broke down and looked at a walkthrough. Some parts are really incredibly hard.

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:39 (twenty-one years ago)

yes, realized!

― lawrence kansas (lawrence kansas), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

does anyone know about the rumors re: microsoft cutting the price on the xbox? if it slips into the 150 range I might pick one up..

That's what I heard ($150). Aren't Gamecubes dirt cheap now? I could see getting one just for Mario Kart, the Zelda and Mega Man comps, and maybe Metal Gear. Damnit, I wish I still had summer vacations to play video games constantly.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Read upthread for commentary on Gamecube prices.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

I'll never forgive nintendo after buying the pice of shit known as the n64. but yeah, i think the gamecube is $99. from what i've seen, the only gamecube game i'd pick up is the new mario kart.

― bill stevens (bscrubbins), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah, I've looked at the walkthrough a couple of times, but not too often. The worst bit = trying to find the castle scientist. It took me ages to discover that if you open the door in the castle library, it leads to the castle laboratory, and he's busy in there. My plumbing depths of existence moment came when I discovered the ahem castle librarian and thought "ooh, rowr" (blushes, hangs head in shame etc)

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 19:57 (twenty-one years ago)

Zelda, Metroid, Eternal Darkness & Pikmin are also great games.

― Kingfish Cowboy (Kingfish), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Metroid Prime is incredible.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Wednesday, 24 March 2004 20:43 (twenty-one years ago)

OK, I've pretty burned out on this arx fatalis thing. I'm going to take a week off. What has burned me out is the crypt levels. They (specifically the second level down) are so creepy, w/the general look of the thing, and the music/effects (VERY effective on level 2, plus I've been playing on headphones) that I finished up playing last night, and I actually felt quite unnerved, plus, I had bad dreams the last 2 nights, and I'm sure this is to blame!! Amazing...

Especially creepy bits:

1/ first level down, octagonal room w/tombs leading off from all sides. One of the rooms leading off has a portcullis gate, that you can see through, and through the gloom, in the distance, you can see this figure. When you work out how to get the gate open, you walk up to the figure, and it sort of looms out of the darkness. It turns out to be a statue, but you don't know this 'till you get right up to it.

2/second level down, all these dank gloomy passageways, and the whole level is shrouded in this grey mist, the music is horrible, really frightening, & even worse than that "quake" level music, where trent r mixed in quiet muttering voices panned in stereo. This is far more effective. In some of the crypts there are gargoyles, and in one of them, their heads very subtly follow you round as you walk across it!

3/third level down, you have to locate this artefact in a tomb, which is why you're in the crypts in the first place. After you locate it, it wakes up this skeleton king thing which isn't actually that scary when you see it, but when it wakes up, you can hear its horrid scary voice echoing through the corridors as it comes looking for you. OH FUCK.

after that it isn't so bad, but I had to go through crypt level 2 again for some reason AND I STILL DIDN'T LIKE IT MUCH.

Many the locations generally have this unusually realistic feel - you don't see many repeating patterns or textures in the backgrounds, for example.

I'm not quite sure why I'm posting this, I think I just wanted to 'fess up that I got teh ph33r from a bloody VIDEO GAME!!!

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Saturday, 27 March 2004 12:54 (twenty-one years ago)

Back on Champ 03/04, with Palermo. Achieving promotion from Serie B in the first season with little problem, the Sicilian team's first top flight season since the 70s went surprisingly well, as Nicola Ventola proved to be an absolute steal at £2million, and Bosman ruling signing Sunday Oliseh also relished the opportunity to prove himself a second time. More like a jumble sale than a football team, but 7th place isn't to be sniffed at. OK, there were 12 points between us and the team in 6th, but... UEFA Cup Spot!

And as the new season starts, we've added to the thrift shop appeal of the team. Double Bosman signings Rivaldo and Paolo Montero, at a sprightly combined age of 67, Christian Lupatelli leaves the Roma reserves to take over our #1 jersey, and upcoming England U21 centreback Michael Dawson decides to make his name in Italy rather than England. Igor Budan comes out of the reserves to take over Luca "out for six months" Toni's role upfront. 7 games in, 3rd place, and we slaughtered Rapid Vienna 11-1 over two legs in the UEFA. Second round sees us already 3-0 up over SV Salzburg from the first leg, so... it could be a good season.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Saturday, 27 March 2004 13:08 (twenty-one years ago)

um, pro evo 3 still. : /

O and game gear 'outrun', 'sonic' and 'olympic gold'.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 March 2004 14:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Splinter Cell on Xbox is the only way to go. You actually have to think for a change

― Ellen Lane (Ellen Lane), Saturday, 27 March 2004 16:56 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm getting really good at pro ev 3 now. the only thing I haven't mastered is the Long Throw. I can't find any use for it. R1 + R2 can take you to another world.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 27 March 2004 16:57 (twenty-one years ago)

I never use r1 + r2.

It would feel......wrong.

Is that the latest CM game Dom? I had the bug riddled one but never bought the latest one, is it much better?

My friends got me BOND-EVERYTHING OR NOTHING for my birthday. I am about to start playing it.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 28 March 2004 12:59 (twenty-one years ago)

Just finished the Uru expansion pack, To D'ni, which is available as a free 180MB download to make up for the cancellation of Uru Live. Let's just say I got what I paid for.

― Michael Daddino (epicharmus), Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I am playing Soul Calibur II, having bought a copy still in the wrapper for £10 on ebay. I still don't understand fighting games. I either win easily just by banging on one button, or I get battered in 3 seconds without being able to do anything about it.

I always play as the sexy girl characters because I do not want to look like Thor. I wish you got characters who looked like Jarvis Cocker, with all of the special moves that implies.

There is a female character in SCII who not only has huge breasts but also a strangely bulging crotch. The game is full of these nice atmospheric touches.

― Eyeball Kicks (Eyeball Kicks), Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:25 (twenty-one years ago)

MVP Baseball is good except for the crap fielding. Even with it on "Assisted" mode the dude will just sit there and look at the ball lying on the ground or rolling away or whatever after he misses some spectacularly easy catch--Big Play Control my ass.

Ninja Gaiden is brutally hard. I've pimped out my golfer 110% in Tiger Woods 2004 but it's still mad fun.

Pro Evolution 3 (or Winning Eleven or whatever you want to call it) owns FIFA. I can't even play FIFA anymore. Any soccer game that I can actually win a game while playing is obviously totally unrealistic.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 28 March 2004 13:26 (twenty-one years ago)

Fifa is rubbish. Pro evo 3 just never gets old.

― Ronan (Ronan), Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:06 (twenty-one years ago)

Pong

― Skottie, Sunday, 28 March 2004 14:49 (twenty-one years ago)

CM 03/04 is a 700% improvement on CM 4 Ronan. CM4 was an absolute dog of a game, CM 03/04, whilst being no 97/98 or 01/02 vintage, is still a good, solid game (maybe slightly too easy, but still). I'd recommend. Also, Sports Interactive are going to bring out their new management game soon, now that they've lost the CM name to Eidos.

― Dom Passantino (Dom Passantino), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:05 (twenty-one years ago)

Played some Xenosaga. Lotsa talky, main character sounds like Yuna from FFX, only with a different amount of lithium.

― Kingfish Hypercolor (Kingfish), Sunday, 28 March 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

CM 03/04 is ridiculously addictive but between-turns seems to take my G4 PowerBook quite a while--it's good for learning patience and smoking cigarettes but I want my match results now. Also I can't find MLS (ie US) soccer anywhere, who wants to play Eurotrash teams all the time?

― adam (adam), Monday, 29 March 2004 00:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I just went back to Hordes of the Underdark. Wow, do I hate Vix'whatever-his-name.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 29 March 2004 13:30 (twenty-one years ago)

i hav got a silver ps2 and my games are socom:us navy seals 1 and 2,burnout 1 and 2,pitfall:the lost expedition,international snooker championship,def jam vendetta,platinum kingdom hearts.i have 1 other 92 more aswell.

― Dean Adam Lee, Saturday, 10 April 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

you are playing all those games as you typed that.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 10 April 2004 18:33 (twenty-one years ago)

"Dean Adam Lee" = some weird Bay Area triangle.

― Leee O'Gaddy (Leee), Saturday, 10 April 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been playing _Harvest Moon: A Wonderful Life_ on the GC. it's a farming RPG! whoopee!

you get a character who inherits a farm, and the point of the game is to be a successful farmer, get married, have a kid, etc.

http://tinyurl.com/2jbkl

imagine, planting & watering crops, cutting down grasses to make fodder, milking cows, all in game form! the japanese are fucked-up.

and, of course, the game allows you to name everything:

my guy = "Beavis"
the dog = "Beavis"
the Cow = "Shanksy"
the chicken = "Clucker"
the horse = "Gluey"
the bull = "Semen" (the bull's only purpose in the game is to impregnate your cows)
the rooster = "Cocky" (ditto)
the goat = "Curry"

i haven't gotten to the point where ducks come to live in my duck pond, yet.

I like this game since it's one of the few games ever made to give your character a basset hound for a pet.

also, i'm not sure if the game will allow me to sell the character's son into slavery or not, but damned if i won't try.

they ran a promo where if you pre-ordered the game, you got a free cow:

http://images.ebgames.com/ebx_assets/product_images/234151x.jpg

free cow! free cow!

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I think you just sold me.

― Leee O'Kingfishson (Leee), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:24 (twenty-one years ago)

LINKS GOLF 2003

― Ronan (Ronan), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Still hooked on Pokemon Ruby/Sapphire, with occasional interruptions of Super Mario Advance (Super Mario Bros 2). I have Metroid Zero Mission but haven't gotten around to playing it for more than a little bit.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I haven't upgraded my home PC in a long time, and so I'm still playing Homeworld. When DOOM 3 comes out, I'm buying a new rig along with Homeworld 2 and Half-Life 2.

― Spencer Chow (spencermfi), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:34 (twenty-one years ago)

I've gotten better at Pro Evo 3--ie I can win a game with a good team vs a bad team.

My girlfriend is all over Star Wars Galaxies. It seems really cool but MMORPGs always seems to be really tedious. Ninja Gaiden is still hard.

― adam (adam), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:40 (twenty-one years ago)

MVP Baseball 2004 (check I Love Baseball for the massive thread).

― gygax! (gygax!), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:42 (twenty-one years ago)

...IF half life 2 ever gets released this year. we'll see.

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Friday, 16 April 2004 20:51 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still on the first planet in KOTOR (haven't had time to play), and I'm thinking about buying the new Splinter Cell for Xbox.

Anticipating: the new Hitman game and Final Fantasy I/II for GBA, assuming it eventually gets released in America.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I've been thinking about buying Super Mario Bros (the first one) for the GBA, speaking of stuff that isn't released in the US. I figure, yeah, the text is in Japanese, but is there really enough of it to matter? And it's only like $20.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:15 (twenty-one years ago)

http://www.miniclip.com/bushshootout.htm

― teeny (teeny), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:18 (twenty-one years ago)

The local GameStop recently had a buy 2 get 1 free deal on used games, so I now have a backlog of unplayed games again. I recently finished Beyond Good & Evil which was not terribly challenging but a well-done and fun game.

I'm waiting for the right time to start up another game or two from the six I just bought, but at the moment I'm spending most of my free time either unpacking stuff in the new house or watching tv when I should be unpacking stuff in the new house.

― martin m. (mushrush), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:20 (twenty-one years ago)

games i bought two months ago and still have yet to really play much more on:

1. xenogears
2. ffx-2
3. gta3 (finally got my own copy after borrowing for so long)

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Friday, 16 April 2004 21:40 (twenty-one years ago)

also, it seems there's a secondary market for free cows...

― Kingfish Balzac (Kingfish), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:03 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing "Gateway to Apshai" a Colecovision emulator. I'm as out of touch with recent games as I am with hip-hop.

― jazz odysseus, Friday, 16 April 2004 22:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Tep, just get the version of Mario 1 that was released for Game Boy Color. It sticks out of the GBA a little but it plays fine.

― Jordan (Jordan), Friday, 16 April 2004 22:24 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't even know there'd been one! I'll bet I can find that used pretty cheap.

― Tep (ktepi), Friday, 16 April 2004 23:08 (twenty-one years ago)

I need a new game, since I beat Ratchet and Clank: Going Commando and Tony Hawk Underground (I got the Kiss concert level!). Here are my criteria: not incredibly difficult (I'm not a great gamer and get frustrated easily), the feeling that you actually have a lot of control over your character (which R&C:GC and THUG are both great for), not too expensive (ie, not brand new). I think I would like Resident Evil games, since I like zombies, but when I bought one of the PS1 ones, I got frustrated by the controls (having to use the direction button to turn the direction you want to go, and then pressing a button to actually move=annoying). Do the ones designed for PS2 have better controls?

― NA (Nick A.), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:22 (twenty-one years ago)

is a neo geo pocket worth buying?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 17 April 2004 00:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Yeah Tep, when I got my GBA I got a copy for my girlfriend for like five bucks (since that's one of the two videogames she loves playing, Zelda II being the other one).

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 17 April 2004 02:45 (twenty-one years ago)

I took my PS2 apart to fit a flipt-op device so I could play the UNHEALTHILY REALISTIC Japanese wrestling game KING OF COLOSSEUM, but now it doesn't work and makes strange noises, SHOULD I HANG MYSELF?

― ferg (Ferg), Saturday, 17 April 2004 02:51 (twenty-one years ago)

spencer otm. the sure fact that my p3 won't hack it with HL2 is really depressing me...

i've been playing medieval: total war lately, which i picked up used a long time ago and sorta ignored. wish i could see the bbc show that's based on it, such a wierd idea.

― g--ff (gcannon), Saturday, 17 April 2004 03:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I played straight through the first 11 missions of Ghost Recon today.

― Stuart (Stuart), Saturday, 17 April 2004 04:43 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm playing SW:KotOR and Call of Duty MP at the moment.

― g-kit (g-kit), Saturday, 17 April 2004 09:53 (twenty-one years ago)

Return To Castle Wolfenstein (XBOX), just having finish Deus Ex: Invisible War (Xbox). Have traded slicing religious zealots packing experimental superweapons for dicing fascist zealots packing experimental superweapons.

― Mike Stuchbery, Saturday, 17 April 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

YES! JUST FINISHED JEDI OUTKAST II! FUCK YOU DESANN!

FUCK YOU! HA HA HA HA HA!

― Johnney B (Johnney B), Saturday, 17 April 2004 15:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I FANALLY BEAT VIX'WHATEVER HIS NAME! YAY! I wish I'd realized that my helmet could make my entire party immune to mind-control spells 3 weeks ago.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 April 2004 16:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan, is that your most un-self-consciously nerdy post ever?

― sLeeeter kinney (Leee), Friday, 23 April 2004 19:27 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, hardly.

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Friday, 23 April 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The "answer these riddles from my interview test" thread gives it a good run for its money.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Friday, 23 April 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Morrowind. Aaaargh. I'm supposed to be finding this Mehra Milo bird, but she's not anywhere, and I can't get into her room because it's locked and I'm crap at picking locks.

― Autumn Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing Onimusha 2 so fuck that bitch!!!Also Manhunt(created solely for me pissoff!!etc)Soul Calibur 2. not as good as OniMusha or fucking Manhunt stay away from my games Bitch!

― splatter, Friday, 23 April 2004 21:48 (twenty-one years ago)

mario kart: double dash!!

― phil-two (phil-two), Friday, 23 April 2004 21:49 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

I have been rockin' Hitman 2 lately (and loving it), but I'm stuck on the second level of sneaking through snow fields trying not to get shot in the head by snipers. I'm sure I can beat it, but not getting to kill people is boring and I haven't time to play in like two weeks.

I am gearing up for my week off work, and since I'm going over to a friend's house for a big Halo session, it occurs to me that I should actually buy it and try to get halfway decent at it first.

How is Return to Castle Wolfenstein? It's even cheaper than Halo.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:47 (twenty-one years ago)

RtCW is good enough.

I've been playing Half Life & Blue Shift lately, and finally tried out American McGee's Alice. I rock the old games.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:49 (twenty-one years ago)

Oh, speaking of, I downloaded an emulator and did my yearly playthrough of Mega Man 2. I even started on Mega Man 3, until I got sick of the slightly dodgy emulation.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 18:55 (twenty-one years ago)

Hitman 2 is the most recent game I bought for PS2, and it's cool but also frustrating, since a lot of it involves sneaking around really slowly. Mostly I've been playing Monkey Island 2: LeChuck's Revenge.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

on Mac, not on PS2.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Initially the 'walking slowly' thing was annoying on Hitman, but you only really have to do it when people are around (and I only really use the super-slow stealth mode when sneaking up behind someone to garrotte them).

The first level was by far the hardest, it seems, and I think the Russian base was my favorite so far.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:09 (twenty-one years ago)

I ended up beating the first level (the Mafioso's villa) just by shooting the crap out of everyone. When I tried to sneak around, I just kept getting discovered.

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:16 (twenty-one years ago)

M A N H U N T

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

don't play games much anymore, but FFTA is becoming a hell of a timesink.

kinmgfish, xenogears is pretty much the worst game ever, save yourself!!! throw it to the attack pigs!

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:19 (twenty-one years ago)

I thought about getting FFTA, but I didn't have the patience for Advance Wars 2, I just gave up.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:23 (twenty-one years ago)

But NA, the stealth is the fun of it! Well, I've never gotten a Silent Assassin rating, I always kill at least one bonus person to get their clothes or whatever.

Okay, I MAY have killed a bunch of guys in suits during my escape on the villa level after I shot the main target.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

i'm actually getting pretty bored with it, but i don't really have the patience for single player games anymore. still worth picking up used though.

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:25 (twenty-one years ago)

Soul Calibur II is maybe one of the greatest videogames ever made.

Also, Onimusha or whatever-it's-called sucks ass.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

The first Onimusha is great.

― deanomgwtf!!!p%3Fmsgid%3D4581997 (deangulberry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:29 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't wait to play Soul Calibur II with actual friends next week, instead of that weak-ass computer.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:32 (twenty-one years ago)

also splinter cell 2 on xbox live is kinda awesome

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:34 (twenty-one years ago)

wolfenstein is middling crap, i'm afraid. but enemy territory, the multiplayer add-on, is fantastic once you learn the ropes. ET is available full & free on the web

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

i've been playing jedi academy. i got addicted at a friend's place and bought it against my better judgement. it's okay inasmuch as you run around with a lightsaber for the whole game, but lucasarts has some of the worst level design i have ever seen. ridiculous, ugly or bland locations with 0 apparent actual utility to the people who might be working there. i know the mile-high no-railing walkway is a star wars staple, but i'm still spoiled by half life, where even the most annoying jumping puzzles looked and felt like a real-world thing.

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:48 (twenty-one years ago)

The Soul Calibur 2 AI fucking sucks. Of course all my friends suck at it too. So we just play Tiger Woods 2004.

Oh, and City of Heroes (for PC) is great.

― adam (adam), Thursday, 27 May 2004 19:55 (twenty-one years ago)

i think the bad level design in Jedi Academy is probably Raven Software's fault, who also fucked up the JKII game.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:04 (twenty-one years ago)

Anyone finished Manhunt yet? The game goes on FOREVER.
What about Red Dead Revolver?

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Last weekend I was playing SCII with an opera buddy who tests games for a living. He kept handing my ass to me as I got used to the Gamecube controller, but then I figured out which button did what and then WOW LOOK OUT!

The best fight was when he picked Nightmare and I beat his ass, then turned around in the next match and picked Nightmare myself and beat his ass again. That was great. (He did win more matches overall though, seeing as it was his home turf, I was unfamiliar with the button layout and he TESTS GAMES FOR A LIVING, but boy did that feel good.)

Favorite SC characters: Talim, Kilik, Nightmare, Voldo (HM to Ivy). As you can see, I don't really have a coherent playing style.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:11 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Yoshimitsu. That bouncing up and down move is annoying as hell when you're on the wrong side of it. Also, he has a sense of humor about the whole thing.

― Jordan (Jordan), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

ok, you're probably right. and it's not as bad as jk2 (no rooms inaccessible other than by 20 ft force jumps that are somehow full of stormtroopers) but it's still pretty bad.

― g--ff (gcannon), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

I have to say that Gamecube Link is FUCKING EVIL. Arrow, arrow, arrow, bomb, bomb, bomb, arrow, FUCK YOU YOU LITTLE GREEN FREAK.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:21 (twenty-one years ago)

Having a coherent strategy with Voldo = a mugs game.

I mostly play Taki.

xpost - that's where Taki comes in. Leap leap roll, who's that behind you? It'd be me and mr pointy.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:23 (twenty-one years ago)

Gameplay with Voldo is great; lunge/contort/hip-check = ring-out!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:25 (twenty-one years ago)

HAHAHAHAHAHA LINK PWNES YOU ALL SUCK MY ARROW

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 27 May 2004 20:53 (twenty-one years ago)

my flat mate finished Manhunt, i didn't really like it.

have been trying to play the new Transformers game but the second level airplane baddie is too hard and I have quit already.

― Ste (Fuzzy), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

oh yeah, i also beat Thief:The Dark Project, and was on my way to beating Thief II when the final level pissed me off, so i just watched the game-ending cutscene and that was that.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 27 May 2004 21:07 (twenty-one years ago)

I've finished Manhunt. Whatya needs 2 know?

The game was okay, but I expected more. I kept playing it just to see what will happen in the end.

― Pingu, Friday, 28 May 2004 04:35 (twenty-one years ago)

I AM NOW ADDICTED TO DIABLO II OH GOD KILL ME

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

aahahaha. i had a little diablo ii revival phase back in december. what's your battle.net ID?

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:14 (twenty-one years ago)

May the lord have mercy on your soul. I walked away from that path a long time ago, and still get a little twitchy.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:16 (twenty-one years ago)

Hi video game guys!

I have been playing a lot of Fifa 2004 (not that good, really) and Vice City (I like the ballads station) on my new PS2.

Yesterday, I really started getting into Wolverine's Revenge. it's one for the fanboys I guess. Average gameplay, but it's fun beating the shit out of things with my big sharp claws. And using my spooky mutant senses.

http://www.armchairempire.com/images/Reviews/gamecube/x2-wolverines-revenge/x2-wolverines-revenge-4.jpg

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:29 (twenty-one years ago)

"I... sense... danger!"

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:30 (twenty-one years ago)

Can anyone recommend a kindofa cutesy but addictive game for the PS2? Must be super-colorful.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Hahahaha Andrew that was funny!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:31 (twenty-one years ago)

Rez if you like shooters, Ratchet & Clank 2 if you like platform games.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

that's more the realm of the gamecube, but try Gitaroo Man

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:34 (twenty-one years ago)

Woah that Wolverine game looks cool! I started playing Vice City again too (it's sad, summer to me only means playing summery games). For some reason when I'm on a hard mission I can only concentrate if I have the radio tuned to Maurice Chavez on the public radio station.

― Dan I., Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:35 (twenty-one years ago)

The Wolverine game IS cool if:

a)You like Wolverine
b)You can get it for under $10, even better for FREE

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:36 (twenty-one years ago)

Can anyone recommend a kindofa cutesy but addictive game for the PS2? Must be super-colorful.

-any of the Bust a Move games
-Ico?
-Disgaea
-Dark Cloud 2

---

and i don't have a battlenet ID yet. I'm always too sheepish to play online with folks i don't know.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:39 (twenty-one years ago)

Although how can one possibly explain the fact that the length of Wolverine's claws appear to be greater than the distance from his hands to his elbows!?

― Dan I., Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

ico isn't really colorful or cutesy, but you need it anyway.

yeah same here wrt online play, i just got into D2 again cuz my friend had become obsessed with it, so i was playing with her a lot. she doesn't have computer access at the moment though, so i haven't touched the game in months. selah.

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:41 (twenty-one years ago)

They get longer and shorter depending on how pissed off he is.

Also, he growls.

xpost

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

Can anyone recommend a kindofa cutesy but addictive game for the PS2? Must be super-colorful.

PARAPPA THE RAPPER!!!

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm smack in the middle of Hitman 2 (still) and Halo (finally), and to make matters better and worse my friend lent me Ninja Gaiden the other day.

― Jordan (Jordan), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

Is there a new version for the PS2? Mrs l would love that game, probably.

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

xpost

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:43 (twenty-one years ago)

no, but you can find it cheap $5-10 and all ps1 games are retrocompatible.

― gygax! (gygax!), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:49 (twenty-one years ago)

It's surprising they never made another Parappa. Or did they?

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:50 (twenty-one years ago)

parappa 2, and un jammy lammy.

they were...odd.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Wednesday, 2 June 2004 22:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Thief 3 rules the roost

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 June 2004 01:53 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm tempted to buy it.

first, to finish Diablo II and Homeworld.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 3 June 2004 01:55 (twenty-one years ago)

I like Bust-A-Groove, the first one. Some ace tunes, that one.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 02:11 (twenty-one years ago)

Morrowind owns me once again. Most immersive game I've ever played.

― Pack Yr Romantic Almanac (Autumn Almanac), Thursday, 3 June 2004 02:13 (twenty-one years ago)

Can anyone email me a saved game from the middle of Halo somewhere? I had to reformat my hard drive and lost all of my saves.

― 57 7th (calstars), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:47 (twenty-one years ago)

Can anyone recommend a kindofa cutesy but addictive game for the PS2? Must be super-colorful.

ALSO: Ape Escape 2! (or Ape Escape 1 for PS1)

― NA (Nick A.), Thursday, 3 June 2004 13:51 (twenty-one years ago)

Who's played Wario Ware for GC? That game is the crack.

― Vinnie (vprabhu), Thursday, 3 June 2004 14:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing "mortyr", which is this 1st person shooter set in 1944 naz! germany with a time machine. I got it cheap, used. It has fancy graphics(one level is set in a cathedral w/light shining diagonally thru the windows, and the lever reflected very cleverly in the highly-polished floor) but the gameplay is strictly DOOM2 level. It's kind of lame really, but fun. It was worth a fiver, though. The best bit is this level set in a castle, w/an enormous zeppelin flying overhead.

― Pashmina (Pashmina), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:11 (twenty-one years ago)

whsmith in hammersmith just had tron 2.0 for the pc for a fiver and i've been through the training bits but didn't want to get too far into it before installing the 50M patch (because it obsoletes old saved games and i'd just have to start again). looks nice from what i've seen of it. and it's funny to think how i'm getting ~= 50fps when the original cray was doing 600spf 8)

― koogs (koogs), Thursday, 3 June 2004 16:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i was playing ninja gaiden till ithad to be returned to the video store. it's really badass.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:08 (twenty-one years ago)

i saw psrt of an ad for a futuristic western type of game for PS2, anyeon know what it might be? also, are any of the indiana jones games any good?

― kephm, Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:44 (twenty-one years ago)

helpmesabretoothkeepskillingme!!!!

― @d@ml (nordicskilla), Thursday, 3 June 2004 17:47 (twenty-one years ago)

GameFAQS to the rescue, bub.

― Lazer Guided Mellow Leee (Leee), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:17 (twenty-one years ago)

kephm, it's red dead revolver, don't waste your time

― cutty (mcutt), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:28 (twenty-one years ago)

hey thanks

― kephm, Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:42 (twenty-one years ago)

I may never buy another videogame again; THANK YOU SOUL CALIBUR II

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Thursday, 3 June 2004 19:43 (twenty-one years ago)

I am so going to the store to pick up the Exp Pack for Diablo II, even tho i know i could probably better spend $20 on something else.

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Thursday, 3 June 2004 20:29 (twenty-one years ago)

okay, i finally got a copy of SW:Knights of the Old Republic from some ebay dude. Great game.

Currently, I'm using the bald asian dude with a bad-ass fu manchu, named "Beavis Azz'Monch"

― Kingfish Disraeli (Kingfish), Friday, 11 June 2004 14:30 (twenty-one years ago)

'hitman: contracts.' wow.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 June 2004 10:52 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm finding it quite hard.

I have also been back on halo. working through it on the hardest difficulty.

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 June 2004 10:53 (twenty-one years ago)

has anyone else played it?

― cozen (Cozen), Saturday, 19 June 2004 17:39 (twenty-one years ago)

I traded for Top Spin tennis yesterday. It is way too good for a tennis game.

― miloauckerman (miloauckerman), Saturday, 19 June 2004 19:14 (twenty-one years ago)

XBOX:
GunValkyrie
Enclave

PS2:
Rygar
Maximo
Herdy Gerdy
Vice City

― AaronHz (AaronHz), Saturday, 19 June 2004 20:22 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm still on Halo (I think I must be nearly done by now), and then I'm going to pick up my stalled game of Hitman 2. I've heard the new one is ace though.

― Jordan (Jordan), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:00 (twenty-one years ago)

I finally finished Hitman 2 and I loved it, even though the ending monologue was excruciatingly lame. I'd love to play Contracts, but they don't have it for GameCube so the hell with it. I will continue Tony Hawking.

Also Dan I will happily take you to school in Soul Caliber II whenever we're in the same neighborhood. BRING THE PAIN

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Saturday, 19 June 2004 22:09 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Sunday, 20 June 2004 00:51 (twenty-one years ago)

An ILx Soul Calibur tournament must be organized! Mainly so I can destroy all y'all. Taki 0wnz.

― adam (adam), Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:12 (twenty-one years ago)

UT2k4

― ARL (Adrian Langston), Sunday, 20 June 2004 01:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I am worried about the number of people I'm going to have killed by the time I die.

halo is the pinnacle of gaming.

― cozen (Cozen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 08:00 (twenty-one years ago)

Index are doing Gamecubes and Gameboy things for £40 at the moment, so I cracked and picked up my first console since a NES. Picked up Zelda, Tony Hawks 4 and Metroid for a tenner each secondhand as well, seems pretty sweet so far, Zelda is soooo cute.

― MattR, Sunday, 20 June 2004 08:31 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm playing Chrono Trigger now and doing that mimic game in the beginning -- how do I know if I got the clone correctly?

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Sunday, 20 June 2004 16:35 (twenty-one years ago)

Just got an S ranking in Resident Evil Zero and the full 120 shines in Super Mario Sunshine over the weekend. RE0 is a great game, SMS still isn't.

― Andrew Farrell (afarrell), Sunday, 20 June 2004 17:11 (twenty-one years ago)

We gave Cathy a lesson in Mario Party last night. And she won! Pah.

― Madchen (Madchen), Sunday, 20 June 2004 18:19 (twenty-one years ago)

Leefuse, run back to Chrono's house after winning the game that costs 80 silver points and the clone should be in his bedroom.

― Dan I. (Dan I.), Sunday, 20 June 2004 18:38 (twenty-one years ago)

i am now playing Star Wars: KotOR using the Dark Side. some of the interactions are funnier, however, most of the dialogue choices make the dark side way too much of a petty thug. not enough subtle power-grabbing.

― Kingfish of Burma (Kingfish), Sunday, 20 June 2004 19:22 (twenty-one years ago)

Sorry, I haven't read the whole thread to see if it's been mentionned yet, but is shellshock nam 67 on PS2 supposed to be good ?

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 21 June 2004 12:44 (twenty-one years ago)

Man, this last bit in Halo where you have to blow up the reactor shafts or whatever is hard.

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 21 June 2004 13:06 (twenty-one years ago)

I started playing Planescape: Torment again yesterday. This game is really ugly now, but WOW the dialogue!!!!!!!

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Monday, 21 June 2004 13:27 (twenty-one years ago)

I'm totally stuck on Aftershock, right at the blimmin start. I have removed the ceiling panel from the nearby lift by standing on the chair but I'm totally flumoxed as to what to do next. Throwing the pen or the radio down the stairs doesn't seem to work.

Anyone any ideas?

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 June 2004 13:28 (twenty-one years ago)

ah so it's: "Climb out of lift",
I was trying all the wrong key words like "up", "jump", "climb up", "grab ceiling and pull self up", "go though hole in ceiling where panel used to be", "examine pen", "hurl pen", "write with pen 'i fuck arses' on wall"

Thanks anyway guys!
(Should I continue carrying the pen when I'm out of the building, or will it slow me down?)

― Ste (Fuzzy), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:12 (twenty-one years ago)

Conflict: Desert Storm 2 on the pS2. Took just under 6 months for me and my mate to complete C:DS, and this one's even better.

― Markelby (Mark C), Monday, 21 June 2004 14:33 (twenty-one years ago)

I can't find that recent SNES thread so I'll just ask it here: why is Chrono Trigger called (one of) the best RPG ever? I admit I'm addicted to it right now, but that's sort of par for every well-done RPG I've played.

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:09 (twenty-one years ago)

WarioWare (the GBA version) is still stealing many of my moments, and I am still not able to get past the last stage. Reflexes games are not meant for my age group, I think.

― Tep (ktepi), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:13 (twenty-one years ago)

The time travel! Robots vs. Cave Women.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Don't write a check that your ass can't cash, son.

Voldo and his creepy-ass bun-hugging costume await you

[NB I talk endless smack about how much ass I'm gonna kick at video games & then get my nuts handed to me in a sock, most of the time]

― J0hn Darn1elle (J0hn Darn1elle), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:14 (twenty-one years ago)

Siegfried and his ~~evil penis substitute~~ giant sword are ready when you are.

[NB Me too]

― VengaDan Perry (Dan Perry), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:18 (twenty-one years ago)

halo owns.

I am getting pretty excited about halo 2, right now.

― cozen (Cozen), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 20:37 (twenty-one years ago)

I was just playing Soul Calibur actually.

― latebloomer (latebloomer), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:03 (twenty-one years ago)

Thief 2 for about twenty minutes but I got creeped out by the ghosts in the cathedral and had to quit.

― j e r e m y (x Jeremy), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 21:52 (twenty-one years ago)

Leeefuse, what about Chrono Trigger do you not really like? When I played it recently I noted how my perspective has changed with the passage of time, so that 16-bit RPGs have come to resemble each other where before their differences seemed more important. The standard it was judged against at the time was Final Fantasy III. Most people seemed to prefer that game, but I always thought that CT had better graphics (cleaner, and sort've more iconic), better music (Zeal Island theme!), better character design (none of the characters in super NES final fantasy games stood out at all), and a better story. One really important thing was that the screen didn't change when you got into a fight (while in FF your characters basically fought drawings), and there were no random fights! That was huge for me; I hated walking around the world map in FF games and getting pulled into random battles.

I think if you're not that far along in it you should keep playing; I'd be willing to bet you'll end up liking it more and more as you go along with more comrades and more techniques (those are really well done too; impressive without being annoying time-consuming mini-movies like some of the more advanced spells in FFVII).

My god I'm such a geek! Really, I wouldn't have this much to say about it if I hadn't just been playing it myself. I might go back and keep playing; there are like 10 endings.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:20 (twenty-one years ago)

I didn't say that I disliked it! I meant only that so far (I'm a little past where you first reach the End of Time place) there hasn't been anything notably memorable that sets it apart from other RPGs that I've played to warrant its "best ever" stature.

I think Mario RPG may be my favorite RPG!

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:26 (twenty-one years ago)

That is a bold statement.

― Dan I., Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:28 (twenty-one years ago)

Maybe I should've said that it was properly the first RPG I'd played and I haven't picked it up since I was 14(?).

― Leeefuse 73 (Leee), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 22:33 (twenty-one years ago)

Dan OTM, the no-random-encounters thing is huge.

I just finished Halo like two minutes ago, so that's one monkey off my back. I have to admit the race out of the exploding ship at the end is pretty exciting. I stopped to blow up those banshees so I reached the escape ship with like .2 seconds left, it was sweet.

― Jordan (Jordan), Tuesday, 22 June 2004 23:18 (twenty-one years ago)

one month passes...

continued here:

What Video Games Are You Wasting Your Life Away on Now? (Vol 2.)

― Kingfish von Bandersnatch (Kingfish), Friday, 23 July 2004 03:06 (twenty-one years ago)

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